[R-SIG-Mac] gfortran 12 vs 14

[Stefano Coretta]

Thanks for the swift response! Right I see, for some reason I wasn’t associating the Mac tools page with R-devel (since some packages need compilation even if you normally install binaries and that’s why I ended up looking that page up) and I did not connect the R-release to “Big Sur build”.

maybe it can be pointed out on the tools page that if the user got to that page to compile specific packages rather than compile R, then they should check which gfortran is been used for the released version or something like that? :)





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> On Feb 20, 2025, at 2:36 AM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd using gmail.com> wrote:
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> Do we expect to stay with gfortran 12.2.0 for 4.4.3 and then switch for 4.5.0?
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Most likely - changing version for patch releases doesn't seem necessary.

Cheers,
Simon


> -pd
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>> On 19 Feb 2025, at 03:02 , Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek using r-project.org> wrote:
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>> Stefano,
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>> please note that the CRAN page is talking about the R 4.4.2 release and the developer tools page says
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>> "CRAN R Big Sur builds used gfortran-12.2-universal.pkg for R 4.3.0 up to 4.4.2"
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>> so they are both correct and very explicit with the corresponding links, so I’m not entirely sure which part is confusing. If you have a suggestions that would clarify the confusion, please let me know and I’d be happy to incorporate it.
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>> Cheers,
>> Simon
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