Thank you both for the comments. The problem is that we have a lot of special-casing for f2c in the configure code, and I think it is becoming unmaintainable. (I've been doing some cleaning up after discovering several errors in little-used cases, e.g. a substitute for alloca was compiled iff --enable-R-shlib was not specified.)
A cleaner solution would be to use a wrapper for f2c as a pseudo-compiler. I'll test that, and if it works then start to strip the special-casing out. On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 09:48:56PM +0000, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> Does anyone have a need to use f2c rather than a Fortran compiler to build >> R? > > We used f2c up until a few months ago as a last line of defence against > crappy Fg77 code on m68k/arm (one or both, it changed at times). > > I'd be hesitant about throwing it out, but it is of course your call. > > Thanks, Dirk > > -- > Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. > -- Thomas A. Edison > > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
