[R-SIG-Mac] Will RcppEigen be available on MacOS X?

[Slava Razbash]

Dirk,

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> (My reply will probably bounce at r-sig-mac where I am not subscribed.)
>
> Slava,
>
> On 21 December 2011 at 12:26, Slava Razbash wrote:
> | Hello,
> |
> | Will RcppEigen be available on MacOS X soon? Currently, the CRAN page
> | says that it is not be available on MacOS X:
> | http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RcppEigen/index.html
> |
> | I have been informed that it compiles fine on an Intel machine and
> | that the issue is probably PowerPC related.
>
> As discussed in earlier emails, this is somewhat complicated. On the one
> hand, it is a bit of a "Simon" issue at CRAN as Simon (whom I added as a CC)
> only admits packages that build on OS X for 32 and 64 bit Intel as well as
> ppc, and Eigen fails to crosscompile for ppc.  So no go there.
>
> Eigen's upstream is also not in a position to fix things, and understandably
> reluctant to cater for an outdated and known-as-buggy compiler, ie g++-4.2.1.
>
> Rock, meet hard place: We're stuck.
>
> So something has to change for this to improve.  Either we manage to petition
> Simon to whitelist packages even if they do not produce 'three architecture'
> fat binaries.  Or else we all have to wait clang/llvm support for C++ on OS X
> which may be a while.

I am currently pursuing an alternative course of action. Thanks.

Best Regards,

Slava

>
> | I intend to use RcppEigen as part of a package that must work on all platforms.
>
> The package works.  As Romain told you again this morning, you can always
> build RcppEigen from source on OS X.
>
> Regards,  Dirk
>
> | Thank You,
> |
> | Slava
>
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