Re: [Rd] Building R for AIX in 64-bit mode

2015-11-06 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Dear aixtools [1], You may want to acquaint yourself with the NEWS file and for example the fine blog / website / rss feed running here http://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel to keep abreast of what is changing. Dirk [1] The handle is nonstandard. We use real names and affiliat

Re: [Rd] Building R for AIX in 64-bit mode

2015-11-06 Thread aixtools
On 2015-11-04 17:46, aixtools wrote: On 2015-11-04 17:31, aixtools wrote: On 2015-11-04 16:51, aixtools wrote: On 2015-10-15 15:02, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On 15/10/2015 13:32, Michael Felt wrote: Hi. Just wanted to let you know I am getting close to packaging R for AIX in 64.bit mode.

Re: [Rd] Building R for AIX in 64-bit mode

2015-11-04 Thread aixtools
On 2015-11-04 17:31, aixtools wrote: On 2015-11-04 16:51, aixtools wrote: On 2015-10-15 15:02, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On 15/10/2015 13:32, Michael Felt wrote: Hi. Just wanted to let you know I am getting close to packaging R for AIX in 64.bit mode. Which version? (You mentioned 3.1.3 an

Re: [Rd] Building R for AIX in 64-bit mode

2015-11-04 Thread aixtools
On 2015-11-04 16:51, aixtools wrote: On 2015-10-15 15:02, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On 15/10/2015 13:32, Michael Felt wrote: Hi. Just wanted to let you know I am getting close to packaging R for AIX in 64.bit mode. Which version? (You mentioned 3.1.3 and 3.2.2 far below.) There is little

Re: [Rd] Building R for AIX in 64-bit mode

2015-11-04 Thread aixtools
On 2015-10-15 15:02, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On 15/10/2015 13:32, Michael Felt wrote: Hi. Just wanted to let you know I am getting close to packaging R for AIX in 64.bit mode. Which version? (You mentioned 3.1.3 and 3.2.2 far below.) There is little value in reporting on frozen branches, a

Re: [Rd] Building R for AIX in 64-bit mode

2015-10-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 15/10/2015 13:32, Michael Felt wrote: Hi. Just wanted to let you know I am getting close to packaging R for AIX in 64.bit mode. Which version? (You mentioned 3.1.3 and 3.2.2 far below.) There is little value in reporting on frozen branches, and most value in reporting on R-devel where al

[Rd] Building R for AIX in 64-bit mode

2015-10-15 Thread Michael Felt
Hi. Just wanted to let you know I am getting close to packaging R for AIX in 64.bit mode. One comment - the libtool.m4 I see used is quite old. The one I have on my system is 2.4.6, and what I see in R says: I am hoping a new libtool will clean up most of the manual work now needed. # Which rel