Message-ID: <20051213233710.GA470@eddelbuettel.com>
Date: 2005-12-13T23:37:10Z
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel
Subject: Building R with f2c - still needed?
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0512132144190.15384@gannet.stats>
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 09:48:56PM +0000, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> Does anyone have a need to use f2c rather than a Fortran compiler to build
> R?
We used f2c up until a few months ago as a last line of defence against
crappy Fg77 code on m68k/arm (one or both, it changed at times).
I'd be hesitant about throwing it out, but it is of course your call.
Thanks, Dirk
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