Message-ID: <ED6AF5C7-748C-4569-99CD-B7903D448555@r-project.org>
Date: 2006-04-20T21:00:55Z
From: Simon Urbanek
Subject: Building package to use OpeNDAP libraries
In-Reply-To: <p0621020cc06d88fa9343@[128.115.153.6]>
Don,
On Apr 20, 2006, at 3:17 PM, Don MacQueen wrote:
> I trying to help someone install a package that uses the OpeNDAP
> [...]
> -- 1 --
> The current R binary on CRAN was built with gcc_select 3.3 in place
> (or 3.something, at least) ?
> (both the powerpc version, and the universal version if installed on
> a powerpc machine?)
>
Yes. This will change for R 2.3.0 (see the nightly builds).
> -- 2 --
> Regardless of any other issues, this compiler version mismatch will
> prevent us from building a working package. Right?
>
Not necessarily. If OpeNDAP libraries use ABIs that don't differ
between 3.3. and 4.0 then it should work. Note that you still have to
compile the R package with gcc 3.x, however the library it is linking
to doesn't always have to be compiled with gcc 3.x.
Cheers,
Simon