R-alpha: libf2c as a shared library - R-devel

Martyn Plummer · 1997-08-21T14:00:28Z

At 15:15 21/08/97, p.dalgaard@kubism.ku.dk wrote: >Ross Ihaka writes: > >> It should be easy to package the libf2c sources as an R library. >> I'm hesitant to put it into the core R distribution, because it >> adds a lot of source, although this would ensure that it was always >> available. >> >> So, should it go in the R core, or to CRAN? >> Ross > >CRAN. Linuxites have in their distributions already, for instance. >Nothing good will come from having it twice. Poss

R-alpha: libf2c as a shared library

Martyn Plummer

Thu, Aug 21, 1997 7:00 AM #

At 15:15 21/08/97, p.dalgaard@kubism.ku.dk wrote:

I agree. The require function is designed to take care of this situation
surely? Indeed, there is already a contributed library (survival) which
depends on another contributed library (splines).

Martyn

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Kurt Hornik

Fri, Aug 22, 1997 2:52 AM #

Hmm ... not so fast ...

Does this also affect the parts of f2c that are already come with R?
I.e., if compiled without a Fortran compiler and a shared libf2c is
found, would R be linked dynamically against that and a corresponding
statement added to the site-wide init file?

-k


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