[Rd] cygwin R-2.14.0 build fail

marco atzeri marco.atzeri at gmail.com
Thu Nov 17 15:53:57 CET 2011


On 11/17/2011 2:12 PM, Uwe Ligges wrote:

>
> External BLASs work for me perfectly on other platforms than cygwin.
> Hence it is cygwin that I would not recommend given the native Windows
> version is both faster and passes the checks.
>
> Uwe Ligges
>

Yeah,
I am almost sure that your view as R developer and mine as
package maintainer for several math packages in cygwin do not match.

If speed was the only parameter for a solution choice ,
we should all only use Linux for math and Windows for games.

From
http://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4582

it is clear that R expectation from a BLAS library is different from
the netlib BLAS reference implementation and I presume it happens also
on any Linux using the netlib BLAS, so I do not see it as a specific
cygwin bug.


Regards and Thanks for your time
Marco



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