small steps ahead from fink in building R Darwin/X11 port
If you want to have a g77 not coming from fink you can try to install g77 3.1 from http://gravity.psu.edu/~khanna/hpc.html I can build a clean R (both 1.7.0 and today patched R) without having anything from fink installed (I remove /sw directory from my system). I've also installed dlcompat as I wrote in a previous msg: from http://www.opendarwin.org/projects/dlcompat/ use the following to configure/install make clean ./configure --enable-fink make Configuring R with ./configure --enable-R-shlib --with-blas='-framework vecLib' --with-lapack gives you the following capabilities > capabilities() jpeg png tcltk X11 GNOME libz http/ftp sockets FALSE TRUE FALSE TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE libxml fifo cledit IEEE754 bzip2 PCRE TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE Stefano