[R] Building R on Solaris with SUNperf

[Giovanni Petris]

Thank you, Professor Ripley. 

I had to add the option --with-blas=libsunperf to the configure
script. Re-reading R-admin.html in the morning helped, too...

Best,
Giovanni 


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[ Giovanni Petris                 GPetris at uark.edu ]
[ Department of Mathematical Sciences              ]
[ University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, AR 72701  ]
[ Ph: (501) 575-6324, 575-8630 (fax)               ]
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> The short answer is read the R-admin.html manual.  You need to use f95 to
> get the right libraries, and then the configure script automatically uses
> sunperf.  It won't work with f77 (or g77).
> 
> Also, R will not make use of all external LAPACK, because it needs a
> bug-fixed LAPACK 3, and there is no way to guarantee that.
> 
> On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Giovanni Petris wrote:
> 
> >
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I am building R-1.3.1 on Solaris 2.7 and I am trying to use the native
> > SUNperf BLAS/LAPACK. I have added the flags ("-dalign
> > -xlic_lib=sunperf") for the compilers in the config.site file.
> > What is not clear to me is what I have to do with the "--with-blas"
> > flag for ./configure. It seems to me that omitting it is not enough.
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Another question, I guess about how to organize directories and get
> > rid of obsolete versions of R, is the following. A directory listing
> > of /export/home/share/R on my machine gives:
> >
> > Wed<18:17>R[85]#ls /export/home/share/R
> > library/      R-1.2.0/      R-1.2.2/      R-1.3.1/      R-1.3.1.tgz
> >
> > I keep in "library/" all the packages, and I build each version of R in
> > the directory with the same name. My question is: can I safely nuke
> > R-1.2.0/ and R-1.2.2/ once I have a working R-1.3.1?
> >
> > Thank you in advance.
> > Best,
> > Giovanni
> >
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> > [ Giovanni Petris                 GPetris at uark.edu ]
> > [ Department of Mathematical Sciences              ]
> > [ University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, AR 72701  ]
> > [ Ph: (501) 575-6324, 575-8630 (fax)               ]
> > [ http://definetti.uark.edu/~gpetris/              ]
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