R 2.1.1 slated for June 20
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 07:51 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
Our preference is F77 compilers over F9x ones, as the lists Simon showed reflects - we decided to prefer F95 to F90 in future, though. My experience is that g77 from gcc-3.4.x is preferable to gfortran. As I said earlier, once gcc-4.0.1 is released (and so R builds with a released version of gcc-4.x.y - 4.0.0 needs worarounds) I will take a another look. So far, using gcc-3.4.4 is both faster and more accurate that gcc-4.0.0. There are a few instances in which loess gives rather different results with gfortran, but they are only visible by diffing postscript files. I will look into converting blas.f to F77 (but not for this release).
<snip> I have re-installed g77 and re-compiled from scratch with it. Unless the FC folks have backported gcc-3.4 updates to gcc-3.2, that update appears to not be imminent, as the FC devel tree (rawhide) is still at gcc-3.2. Best regards, Marc