[Rd] Building R with f2c - still needed?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Does anyone have a need to use f2c rather than a Fortran compiler to build 
R?

It is yet one more thing to test, and as it only works on 32-bit platforms 
it is something that I will shortly no longer be able to test.

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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