[R-SIG-Mac] Problems to install a package

[Berend Hasselman]

> On 31-07-2015, at 22:14, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 31 Jul 2015, at 21:36 , Berend Hasselman <bhh at xs4all.nl> wrote:
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>>> On 31-07-2015, at 20:46, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> On 31 Jul 2015, at 12:33 , Timothy Bates <tim.bates at ed.ac.uk> wrote:
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>>>> This happened for me too: that Intel Core 2 is just too old for the compiler.
>>>> 
>>>> I used it as a stimulus to buy a new laptop… As a bonus, everything is ~10x faster
>>>> Best, tim
>>> 
>>> Hum, well, I wasn't actually planning to switch out my MB Air just now.
>>> 
>>> I'm actually baffled that I haven't bumped into this before. Both my laptop and my office desktop are Core 2 Duo machines (and the latter is the one that builds the R source releases!).
>>> 
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>> If you use gfortran: which version?
>> If you are not using any floating point then gfortran-4.8 will probably work without problems.
>> I think.
>> 
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> It's 4.2.1 and 4.2.3, it seems. That's for the local builds; for the CRAN binaries, it seems that I just never tried building a package with Fortran in it. Not sure whether I have used any Fortran binaries (is there an easy way to check whether a package contains Fortran?) 

But then you are still using the Snow Leopard binaries for R?
I don’t know if stuff created with the older gfortran  will run with an R built for mavericks.

Two of my packages: nleqslv and geigen. They could not compile on my previous C2D computer with gfortran-4.8.
And another one: QZ.
And there are some more.
You would also need the Mavericks binaries of R.

Berend