[R-SIG-Mac] Tools Update for R3.5?

[Berend Hasselman]

> On 26 May 2018, at 14:19, Berend Hasselman <bhh using xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 26 May 2018, at 13:36, Roger Koenker <rkoenker using illinois.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> I’ve just installed R3.5 and clang6 and fortran 6.1 and now realize that the compiler packages install in
>> /usr/local/clang6 and /usr/local/gfortran  respectively.  I expected that there would also be some automatic
>> symbolic links to /usr/local/bin  etc.  however when I tried to compile packages from source the old versions
>> of the compilers are invoked.  I realize that this is probably quite elementary, but I would appreciate some
>> advice on how to complete the installation so the new compilers are accessed.
>> 
> 
> I added these two lines to  my ~/.profile
> 
> # clang6 for R 3.5.0
> export PATH=/usr/local/clang6/bin:$PATH
> 
> and that seems to do the job.
> 

Might not do the job.

But I also added this to my ~/.R/Makevars

# for R 3.5.0
# https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/tools/

CC=/usr/local/clang6/bin/clang
CXX=/usr/local/clang6/bin/clang++
LDFLAGS =-L/usr/local/clang6/lib

and that really does it.

Berend

> Berend
> 
>> Many thanks,
>> Roger
>> 
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