[R] R 2.8.0 compilation...

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, jiapei100 wrote:

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> R Compilation...
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> Not sure whether this is important for R... and, no idea how to get rid of
> the following "no"s...

Why do you wnat to?  configure is finding out about the capabilities of 
your (unstated) system: many of these are quirks of some systems other 
than yours, and others are system-specific capabilities which R exploits, 
e.g. on Mac OS X.

>
> checking dl.h usability... no
> checking dl.h presence... no
> checking for dl.h... no
>
> checking floatingpoint.h usability... no
> checking floatingpoint.h presence... no
> checking for floatingpoint.h... no
>
> checking for cached Foundation settings... no
> checking whether default Foundation framework works... no
> checking whether -framework Foundation works... no
> checking whether libFoundation works... no
> checking for GNUstep... no
> checking for working Foundation implementation... no
> checking whether C runtime needs -D__NO_MATH_INLINES... no
>
>
> checking for library containing connect... none required
> checking for library containing gethostbyname... none required
> checking for library containing xdr_string... none required
> checking for __setfpucw... no
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>
> checking whether mktime sets errno... no
>
>
> checking for cblas_cdotu_sub in vecLib framework... no
>
>
> checking for CFStringGetSystemEncoding in CoreFoundation framework... no
> checking for tclConfig.sh... no
> checking for tclConfig.sh in library (sub)directories...
> /usr/lib/tcl8.5/tclConfig.sh
> checking for tkConfig.sh... no
> checking for tkConfig.sh in library (sub)directories...
> /usr/lib/tk8.5/tkConfig.sh
>
>
> checking whether compiling/linking Tcl/Tk code works... no
>
> checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no
> checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... 64
> checking for _LARGEFILE_SOURCE value needed for large files... no
> checking whether KERN_USRSTACK sysctl is supported... no
>
>
> checking for cached Java settings... no
>
>
> checking for Fortran flag to compile .f90 files... none
> checking for Fortran flag to compile .f95 files... none
>
>
> checking for CFPreferencesCopyAppValue... no
> checking for CFLocaleCopyCurrent... no
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>
> checking whether _snprintf is declared... no
> checking whether _snwprintf is declared... no
>
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> checking for CFPreferencesCopyAppValue... (cached) no
> checking for CFLocaleCopyCurrent... (cached) no
> checking whether included gettext is requested... no
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>
>
> Can anybody help to explain how these happen?
>
> Regards
> JIA
>
>
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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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