Message-ID: <6BC95112-FB5C-4F15-A928-83E9A19353B9@comcast.net>
Date: 2013-03-08T20:56:55Z
From: David Winsemius
Subject: ./configure fails when creating R 2.15.3
In-Reply-To: <CAPUB6NBrLm7rt4T96yB1EFdaiOed5YocH82AnkRDS+xbeWafzA@mail.gmail.com>
On Mar 8, 2013, at 12:50 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
> I'm subscribing to R-devel, where may be the proper place to post this
> query. Sorry.
>
> I have a reason to create R from the source code. I have a MacBook Pro
> running OS X 10.8.2. I've downloaded 'gfortran-4.2.3.pkg' and
> installed Fortran.
>
> I downloaded R-2.15.3 and tried to do a "./configure".
>
> The configure fails and the error messages I'm seeing are:
>
> checking for dummy main to link with Fortran 77 libraries... none
> checking for Fortran 77 name-mangling scheme... unknown
> configure: WARNING: unknown Fortran name-mangling scheme
> checking whether gfortran appends underscores to external names... unknown
> configure: error: cannot use Fortran
>
> I've read the admin manual.
>
> My Mac system is vanilla,
Does that mean you have not installed XCode?
> so I had been hoping that I'd have no
> difficulty generating R but unfortunately I was wrong. Can someone
> suggest something for me to try?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA