[Rd] R install problem on MacOS 10.5.1 (PR#10476)

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

gfortran is not part of Apple's Xcode which only contains GCC. The R- 
installer contains gfortran for use with the Apple supplied GCC.

Kasper

On Dec 3, 2007, at 1:45 PM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:

> Out of interest, why (the hell!) would the R installer trying to
> temper with gcc's files? It looks like it is either trying to rename
> or delete them.
>
> R needs gfortran's runtime library, and tries to detect for its
> presence, that's fair enough... modifying, no. Is the failure
> because the R installer try to put in some of gcc/xcode, which the
> user already has, or something like that?
>
> HTL
>
> Saleem Bhatti wrote:
>> Simon;
>>
>> On 30 Nov 2007, at 15:38, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>>
>>> Window -> Installer Log
>>> You can then use Save ... to save it in a file.
>>
>> OK - file is attached.
>>
>>> Well, yes, but you said "automated install" - so how were you  
>>> running
>>> an "automated" install? For me automated install is run via
>>> /usr/sbin/installer utility and that doesn't have any UI, so I was
>>> wondering what are you using exactly?
>>
>> My apologies for the confusion.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --/Saleem
>>
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