[R] Error message when building a package

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

Please update your Xcode tools.  According to

http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/RMacOSX-FAQ.html

2.2 or later is needed, and 2.4.1 is current.


On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, C. Lillian Yau wrote:

> I'm trying to build a package. The machine is PowerPC G4 with Mac OS 10.4.8,
> and I'm using R2.4.1.
>
> I get "R CMD build roots" working, and it created roots.tar.gz. But I get
> the following message when I run "R CMD INSTALL -l ../myrlibrary
> roots.tar.gz"
>
> ======================================================================
> * Installing *source* package 'roots' ...
> ** libs
> ** arch - ppc
> gcc-4.0 -arch ppc -std=gnu99
> -I/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include
> 
-I/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include/ppc
> -I/usr/local/include    -fPIC  -g -O2 -c fifrt.c -o fifrt.o
> gfortran-4.0 -arch ppc   -fPIC  -g -O2 -c fthrt.f -o fthrt.o
> gcc-4.0 -arch ppc -std=gnu99 -dynamiclib -Wl,-macosx_version_min -Wl,10.3
> -undefined dynamic_lookup -single_module -multiply_defined suppress
> -L/usr/local/lib -o roots.so fifrt.o fthrt.o  -lgfortran -lgcc_s
> -lSystemStubs -lmx -lSystem
> -L/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/lib/ppc -lR -dylib_file
> libRblas.dylib:/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/lib/ppc/libRblas.dy
> lib
> /usr/bin/libtool: unknown option character `m' in: -macosx_version_min

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