[R-SIG-Mac] gfortran 12 vs 14

[Jeroen Ooms]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM Simon Urbanek
<simon.urbanek using r-project.org> wrote:
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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.

It also a bad idea because the binary packages are linked to
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.4-arm64/Resources/lib/libgfortran.5.dylib
so if you start building with gfortran-14, those binaries probably
won't work on R 4.4.0 - 4.4.2 (which has the libgfortran 12 runtime).




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> Cheers,
> Simon
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> > -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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