Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Linux platform differences

2010-10-27 Thread Prof. John C Nash
For what it's worth, there's been a lot of traffic on the R-devel list in the past few months about Windows builds. They are done under cygwin with a kit of tools (Rtools) from Duncan Murdoch at UWO who is a longstanding colleague of mine. Very nice work, but also very fiddly if you stray from t

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Linux platform differences

2010-10-27 Thread piper.guy1
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:26 PM, piper.guy1 wrote: >>> Well, ethtool is a linux-specific tool to poke at network devices, so >>> I actually would expect it to include linux/* headers directly.   I >>> wouldn't hold much hope of compiling

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Linux platform differences

2010-10-27 Thread Bart Trojanowski
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:26 PM, piper.guy1 wrote: >> Well, ethtool is a linux-specific tool to poke at network devices, so >> I actually would expect it to include linux/* headers directly.   I >> wouldn't hold much hope of compiling that on windows. > > I never said that I'm compiling under Wind

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Linux platform differences

2010-10-27 Thread piper.guy1
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Aidan Van Dyk wrote: > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 1:20 PM, piper.guy1 wrote: > >> '/usr/include/linux' is pretty common. It's in my Ubuntu platform. It >> includes a very comprehensive collection of header files and folders >> of header files. So why does it appear

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Linux platform differences

2010-10-27 Thread Aidan Van Dyk
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 1:20 PM, piper.guy1 wrote: > '/usr/include/linux' is pretty common. It's in my Ubuntu platform. It > includes a very comprehensive collection of header files and folders > of header files. So why does it appear sometimes and not others? /usr/include/linux should contain t