On 11/17/2011 10:11 AM, Uwe Ligges wrote:

Everybody in this discussion invested too much time on it already. If
you want to provide cygwin support for others, go ahead and tackle the
problems, but don't distribute incorrectly working versions of R.

Dear Uwe,

first test versions are always by definition incorrectly
working versions.

Reading
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#BLAS
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#LAPACK

it is clear that R relies with its internal BLAS and Lapack implementation, differently from a lot of other packages.
May I suggest to add an additional note that also
external BLAS is not recommended as done for LAPACK.

It will be also worth to add a "not recommended" on the
  configure --help
output

  --with-blas             use system BLAS library (if available),
                          or specify it [no]
  --with-lapack           use system LAPACK library (if available),
                          or specify it [no]

as it is not obvious and it could mislead newcomers like me.

Best,
Uwe Ligges

Best Regards
Marco

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