Dear Dirk, I have had the exactly same problem like Ivo and his solution worked for me. Hence the USE=f77 flag is NOT a typo but a Gentoo quirk. As far as modifying the configure script is concerned, I believe that it is certainly possible to perform said check (if 'f77 --version == f2c' then die) only on x86_64 platforms. And I'd argue it is f2c's fault. AMD64 linux distros have been known to have troubles of this sort especially as far as compilers are concerned.
regards Diman Todorov On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 06:59:14AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > peter/brian: thank you for the help. i can now report that gentoo > amd64 can compile R just fine, too; it requires the f77 USE flag and a (Err, no such thing exists: either g77, f2c or the fort77 wrapper for f2c.) > gcc compiler rebuild first, though. I also went to gcc 3.4.1. my > segfault troubles earlier were caused by my use of f2c. > > suggestion: would it be possible to add a code snippet that tests > whether the user is trying to compile with f2c and if so, bombs the > installation? (if "f77 --version == f2c" then die) I know the Bad idea. My Debian configuration, driven from a single configuration, is used on about a dozen different platforms. One of these, m68k, has a continually been problematic with g77, which forces us to use f2c. And despite your fears, that is working swimmingly for R as well as the by now 40 or so CRAN packages that are in the distro too, incl the ones like VR, Hmisc/Design, tseries, ... that contain Fortran code. > problems are not R's fault, but it can percolate into R and it can > protect people like myself. I'd argue that it wasn't f2c's fault, but maybe an unlucky mix of parts of your toolchain (gcc, binutils, libc, ...). ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel