Hi Everyone, when building (say) R-2.4.0 from the source, is it still the recommendation to use GCC 3.4? Thank you very much, Benilton Carvalho PhD Candidate Department of Biostatistics Johns Hopkins University
Building R from the source
4 messages · Benilton Carvalho, Brian Ripley
On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Benilton Carvalho wrote:
Hi Everyone, when building (say) R-2.4.0 from the source, is it still the recommendation to use GCC 3.4?
It depends on your unstated OS. There are recommendations in the R-admin manual, and those I wrote are still current. Often one cannot easily mix systems based on gcc3 and gcc4: there are a lot of API incompatibilities, at least on 64-bit systems. So if you have a gcc4-based Linux distribution (for example), use its 'native' compilers. If you want more detailed advice, please give fuller details including your exact OS and what compilers you have available to you.
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
Professor Ripley, thank you very much for your reply. I'm currently trying to build R-2.4.0 from the source on a system (Xeon) running Fedora Core 4. As for the available compilers: gcc/g++/gfortran/f95 (version 4.0.0-8) Thank you very much, Benilton Carvalho PhD Candidate Department of Biostatistics Johns Hopkins University
On Nov 11, 2006, at 4:34 PM, Prof Brian D Ripley wrote:
when building (say) R-2.4.0 from the source, is it still the recommendation to use GCC 3.4?
If you want more detailed advice, please give fuller details including your exact OS and what compilers you have available to you.
On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Benilton Carvalho wrote:
Professor Ripley, thank you very much for your reply. I'm currently trying to build R-2.4.0 from the source on a system (Xeon) running Fedora Core 4.
And I still don't know if this is i686 or x86_64!
As for the available compilers: gcc/g++/gfortran/f95 (version 4.0.0-8)
Ouch: I really would advise against those (they are the main reason why many of us skipped FC4 and CRAN ran its tests under gcc3 until later versions were available). Probably best to update to 4.1.1, but I see 4.0.2 is on the FC4 update area and this suggests that your OS is not fully updated.
Thank you very much, Benilton Carvalho PhD Candidate Department of Biostatistics Johns Hopkins University On Nov 11, 2006, at 4:34 PM, Prof Brian D Ripley wrote:
when building (say) R-2.4.0 from the source, is it still the recommendation to use GCC 3.4?
If you want more detailed advice, please give fuller details including your exact OS and what compilers you have available to you.
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595