[R-SIG-Mac] OSX gFortran

[Simon Urbanek]

Mike,

On Apr 29, 2010, at 2:47 PM, Mike Arthur wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> Thanks for your great work on the gfortran version for OSX from these sites:
> http://r.research.att.com/tools/
> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/tools/
> 
> I'm doing some work for the Mac Homebrew package manager and I'm wanting to try and allow the building of gfortran. Could you advise me on who built the binaries on the above sites and give me their contact details?

I am building all Mac gfortran binaries. The detailed instructions are on the same page where you got the fortran from:
http://r.research.att.com/tools/

The Xcode builds are using Apple's Xcode sources + libfortran + gcc/fortran from gcc-4.2.4 sources + diff is on the tools page. The build is done the same way Apple Xcode is compiled.

The alternative GNU build is done from the GNU release sources and is described on the page as well.


> I'd really like to try and have reproducible build instructions to build a formula for Homebrew so our users can have gfortran. I'd love to know where you get your sources from (I presume here: http://www.opensource.apple.com/) and what patches and configure lines you use to build the binaries?
> 
> Thanks already for your work and I'm sorry to intrude on this mailing list!
> 

Sure, not problem. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. (I think I was talking to Max a while ago about improvements to Homebrew ;) - I like the idea)

Cheers,
Simon