Message-ID: <CD443625-A245-4690-96F0-B3E433F6A60D@r-project.org>
Date: 2005-09-02T00:07:35Z
From: Simon Urbanek
Subject: vecLib and building R from source
In-Reply-To: <DF7A7FD4-976B-45AF-9AE3-FE6C51100C23@stats.ox.ac.uk>
On Sep 1, 2005, at 7:13 PM, Kjell Konis wrote:
> On 31 Aug 2005, at 20:33, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>
>> You should definitely use Apple's compiler, stock GNU gcc is NOT
>> the same as Apple, because there are many features that Apple
>> folks have added. You should check out the Apple branch from GNU.
>>
>
> It might not be such a good idea to be too dependent on Apple's
> gcc. There are compilers from IBM and Intel that people may at
> some time be interested in using.
You're free to, but then you should know what you're doing and find
out the right flags for your compiler ;).
As of R-devel configure will automatically use vecLib if the compiler
supports -framework and vecLib is present, so you don't need to
supply any flags unless you have an esoteric compiler.
Cheers,
Simon