[R-SIG-Mac] GNU Fortran versions on R tools for OS X

[Simon Urbanek]

On Apr 12, 2013, at 2:59 PM, Davor Cubranic <cubranic at stat.ubc.ca> wrote:

> Page R tools for OS X (http://r.research.att.com/tools/) says:
> 
> gcc-4.2 (Apple build 5666.3) with GNU Fortran 4.2.4 for Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion):
> Download: gcc-42-5666.3-darwin11.pkg (for Xcode 4.2 and higher)
> 
> But the Fortran that it installs is 4.2.1, not 4.2.4:
> 
> ~$ gfortran --version
> GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)
> Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> 
> GNU Fortran comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> You may redistribute copies of GNU Fortran
> under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
> For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING
> 

This is what the Apple gcc branch reports, because that's what the gcc driver is build from (Apple's gcc 4.2.1 build 5666.3), but the Fortran sources that have been added into that branch are from GNU Fortran 4.2.4 (see the page that you downloaded it from - it has the details).

Cheers,
Simon


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