Re: [R] R static is dynamically linked!!

2008-05-22 Thread George Georgalis
On Tue 20 May 2008 at 11:52:32 AM -0400, George Georgalis wrote: > >But this makes me realize, since our OS is generally >backwards compatible, I may be able to build on the old >systems and use on the newer ones as well. Will give >that a shot. > that doesn't work, I think because gcc changed fro

Re: [R] R static is dynamically linked!!

2008-05-20 Thread George Georgalis
On Tue 20 May 2008 at 07:01:58 AM +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > You asked for R to be built as a static lib, not for the front-end to be > statically linked. It is not the R lib it is dynamically linking to (that > is statically linked by default whether or not you ask for a separate lib), >

Re: [R] R static is dynamically linked!!

2008-05-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
You asked for R to be built as a static lib, not for the front-end to be statically linked. It is not the R lib it is dynamically linking to (that is statically linked by default whether or not you ask for a separate lib), but the OS components. R depends on dlopen-ing extensions, so there is

Re: [R] R static is dynamically linked!!

2008-05-19 Thread George Georgalis
On Mon 19 May 2008 at 06:39:39 PM -0400, George Georgalis wrote: >Hi, > >After doing all I could find with the confiure script... >I set some env too... > >export enable_R_static_lib=yes >export want_R_static=yes >export WANT_R_STATIC_TRUE=yes > >./configure \ >--prefix=${i} \ >--en