[R] Fedora 1 RPM Packages

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Ian Wallace wrote:

> That makes sense since most people will build with the defaults and
> that's what we'd like packages for the main stream.
> 
> I'm already working around it ... but thought I would mention that some
> of us do like the shared library.  I hadn't even given any thought
> though to the memory foot print and assumed it would be roughly the
> same, I never checked though.

It would be nice if R used its shared library itself, as it does on 
Windows.  However,

- on some platforms we cannot build the shared library at all (since some 
of the crucial system routines, usually the Fortran run time, are not 
PIC, or BLAS and other libraries are not shared).

- on some platforms there is an appreciable performance hit (I have seen 
reports of 5-10%).

We don't have the resources to build and check different versions of R for 
different platforms.

> 
> cheers
> ian
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 10:11, Martyn Plummer wrote:
> > >From the response that I have had from the list it appears that not
> > many
> > > people use the shared lib from R, and that it wouldn't make sense to
> > > build it that way by default.
> > 
> > The generic answer to this kind of request is that if a feature isn't
> > enabled by default, then it doesn't go in the RPM.
> > 
> > Martyn
> 

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