[R-SIG-Mac] YA Mac 64 bit Question

Byron Ellis byron.ellis at gmail.com
Sun May 6 09:45:51 CEST 2007


The second problem is due to a problem with inline functions--Simon
probably knows how to get the right thing to happen, but I usually
just take the brute force method of deactivating inline functions by
hand.

On 5/6/07, Karl Goiser <karl.goiser at anu.edu.au> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to get a 64 version of R running on my Mac Pro (like
> several others, it seems).  It seems there are two options, 10.4 and
> 10.5:
>
> http://r.research.att.com/exp/ says to install Xcode [tick] and GNU
> Fortran [tick], get the R source (from CRAN, I assume, e.g. http://
> cran.au.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.5.0.tar.gz) [tick], and
> configure with a suggested command line:
>
> ./configure CC='gcc -arch x86_64' CXX='g++ -arch x86_64'
> F77='gfortran -arch x86_64' FC='gfortran -arch x86_64' --with-blas='-
> framework vecLib' --with-lapack --without-x --with-system-zlib --
> build=x86_64-apple-darwin8.8.1 --without-readline
>
>
> Tiger:
>
> When I run it (without r_arch=x86_64) I get an error:
> configure: error: --with-iconv=yes (default) and suitable iconv is
> not available
>
> What is this and how do I address it?
>
>
> Leopard:
> When I run the same configure as per the web site, I get a different
> error:
>
> ./configure: line 61328: test: =: unary operator expected
>
> If I then go on to 'make', I get the following:
> ld64: warning: option -headerpad_max_install_names is obsolete and
> being ignored
> ld64-72 failed: duplicate symbol _Rf_mkChar in CommandLineArgs.o and
> CConverters.o
>
>
> So, no luck with either version of the OS.
>
>
> Could somebody assist me with these problems?  I am sorry in that I
> am not knowledgeable with all this installation of packages and the
> like..
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Karl
>
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Byron Ellis (byron.ellis at gmail.com)
"Oook" -- The Librarian



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