[R] Building R on Solaris with SUNperf

[Prof Brian Ripley]

The short answer is read the R-admin.html manual.  You need to use f95 to
get the right libraries, and then the configure script automatically uses
sunperf.  It won't work with f77 (or g77).

Also, R will not make use of all external LAPACK, because it needs a
bug-fixed LAPACK 3, and there is no way to guarantee that.

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Giovanni Petris wrote:

>
> Dear All,
>
> I am building R-1.3.1 on Solaris 2.7 and I am trying to use the native
> SUNperf BLAS/LAPACK. I have added the flags ("-dalign
> -xlic_lib=sunperf") for the compilers in the config.site file.
> What is not clear to me is what I have to do with the "--with-blas"
> flag for ./configure. It seems to me that omitting it is not enough.
> Any suggestions?
>
> Another question, I guess about how to organize directories and get
> rid of obsolete versions of R, is the following. A directory listing
> of /export/home/share/R on my machine gives:
>
> Wed<18:17>R[85]#ls /export/home/share/R
> library/      R-1.2.0/      R-1.2.2/      R-1.3.1/      R-1.3.1.tgz
>
> I keep in "library/" all the packages, and I build each version of R in
> the directory with the same name. My question is: can I safely nuke
> R-1.2.0/ and R-1.2.2/ once I have a working R-1.3.1?
>
> Thank you in advance.
> Best,
> Giovanni
>
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