[R-SIG-Mac] New intel based laptops

[Simon Urbanek]

On Jan 20, 2006, at 7:11 AM, Kjell Konis wrote:

>> GNU gcc and gfortran from CVS have the same problem, basically.  
>> They don't know about --bundle, so linking of packages with shared  
>> libraries fails. But at least you can build both gcc and gfortran  
>> on MacIntel from here.
>
> GNU gcc (at least for ppc) does know about -bundle.  It just can't  
> be  the first argument - this is a long standing parser bug.  Here  
> is a  configure patch that fixes the problem on ppc, it also  
> removes -no- cpp-precomp.  Anyone want to try it on x86 OSX?
>

Thanks, Kjell. I have committed similar changes to R-devel and it now  
compiles on Intel Macs pretty much out of the box with the GNU build  
of gcc4. The Intel compilers are almost there, save for a few bugs  
that have been reported. As of performance, don't hold your breath,  
Core Duo is fast for daily use, but not particularly good at  
computing like BLAS.

Cheers,
Simon