Re: [Rd] specifying compiler path in configure

2008-08-31 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Mark Kimpel wrote: After reading over the relevant sections of the manual more carefully, I now see where the information is presented and I was able to get R to compile with an alternate version of gcc. On thing, however, remains unclear to me. If R is compiled with a non-d

Re: [Rd] specifying compiler path in configure

2008-08-29 Thread Mark Kimpel
After reading over the relevant sections of the manual more carefully, I now see where the information is presented and I was able to get R to compile with an alternate version of gcc. On thing, however, remains unclear to me. If R is compiled with a non-default version of a compiler, are subsequen

Re: [Rd] specifying compiler path in configure

2008-08-27 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Mark, On 27 August 2008 at 16:21, Mark Kimpel wrote: | I'm having trouble building some packages while running Debian Lenny | (testing) and suspect that the issues are related to the default use | of gcc-4.3. With Lenny, build-essentials depends on 4.3, so I'd like | to leave it installed but ha

Re: [Rd] specifying compiler path in configure

2008-08-27 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Mark Kimpel wrote: I'm having trouble building some packages while running Debian Lenny (testing) and suspect that the issues are related to the default use of gcc-4.3. You might want to compare your problems with the CRAN checks at http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/ch