On 6 June 2011 at 09:56, baptiste auguie wrote: | > | > I don't think it is a matter of fixing the R-Forge server. I think it is a | > | > matter of making your package installable on the largest number of user | > | > systems. Also try win-builder.r-project.org to see how it fares on that | > | > platform. | | Unsurprisingly, it fails, with the same complaint as R-forge.
Yup. | > | I was under the impression that R-forge or CRAN, if it had LAPACK | > | installed, could produce binaries for the relevant platforms, and | > | users would not have to build the package themselves and would not be | > | required of having LAPACK on their machine. That's probably a | > | misconception, isn't it? | > | > If and only statically linked binaries or libraries where produced, which is | > generally not the case. Many OSs (Linux incl) ship source only and otherwise | > link dynamically, others (Windoze) use dynamic linking and OS X is for all I | > know somewhere in the middle (as you can get prebuild packages with dynamic | > linking or build from source). | | I see; so basically the user will always need to have a full LAPACK | installed. Here's one question then, if R-core didn't consider | necessary to include those particular functions from LAPACK, | presumably that means that R defines its own routines to solve linear | systems and invert matrices. Is there any possibility to use those | routines with Armadillo? I think that *is* generally what we do. We would have at specifics for the functions you are after. | > It can be done; there are many examples -- for example every package using | > the GSL. | | I just checked how RcppGSL does it, and well, this configure magic is | way above my head. I know it looks scary but you it is reasonably well understood and there are tons of examples. I can help you off-line. Also, read configure.in / configure.ac and not the configure which is autogenerated from it, large and generally unreadable. Dirk -- Gauss once played himself in a zero-sum game and won $50. -- #11 at http://www.gaussfacts.com _______________________________________________ Rcpp-devel mailing list Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel