[R-SIG-Mac] Fortran on MacOS Sierra

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This seems to be Sierra, which has 'tidied up' system libraries.

The recommendation for El Capitan at http://coudert.name/software.html 
also works correctly on Sierra. (See the manual, preferably before posting.)

There are good reasons why the posting guide asks for 'at a minimum' the 
output of sessionInfo() ....

On 30/09/2016 09:31, Ken Beath wrote:
> I tried to build frailtypack from source using R 3.3.1 and it failed with the following message (after a ridiculous amount of warnings)
>
> gfortran-4.8 -dynamiclib -Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names -undefined dynamic_lookup -single_module -multiply_defined suppress -L/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/lib -L/usr/local/lib -o frailtypack.so Adonnees.o AparamMultive.o Aparameters.o aGhermite.o aaOptim.o aaOptimres.o aaUseFunction.o aaUseFunctionG.o aamarq98o.o additive.o afuncpasres.o ahrmsym.o aresidusMartingale.o atestWald.o distance.o epoce.o epoce_log.o epoce_long.o frailtypack.o funcpaG_tps.o funcpaGcpm.o funcpaGcpm_intcens.o funcpaGcpm_log.o funcpaGsplines.o funcpaGsplines_intcens.o funcpaGsplines_log.o funcpaGweib.o funcpaGweib_intcens.o funcpaGweib_log.o funcpaMultivCpm.o funcpaMultivSplines.o funcpaMultivWeib.o funcpaacpm.o funcpaasplines.o funcpaaweib.o funcpaj_tps.o funcpajcpm.o funcpajcpm_log.o funcpajgeneral.o funcpajlongisplines.o funcpajlongiweib.o funcpajsplines.o funcpajsplines_fam.o funcpajsplines_intcens.o funcpajsplines_log.o funcpajweib.o funcpajweib_fam.o funcpajweib_intcens.o funcpajweib_log.o f... <truncated>
> gfortran-4.8: warning: couldn’t understand kern.osversion ‘16.0.0
> ld: library not found for -ldylib1.o
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [frailtypack.so] Error 1
> ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘frailtypack’
>
> I was going to attempt the build with gfortran 4.2 but haven’t been able to revert back from 4.8
>
> So does it happen with 4.2 and if not, how can I revert back?
>
> If not is this an R problem or the package?

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford