[R] suse 9.1 x86_64 rpms?

[Liaw, Andy]

I just compiled R from source on SLES9-amd64.  I had to install the
following, which are not installed by default:

`devel' part of readline and xfree86
libpng

(I also installed Goto's BLAS, which, obviously, has no rpm.)

After that, you just need to make sure of adding -m64 (and maybe -march=k8)
to CFLAGS/FFLAGS/CXXFLAGS.  Then R will compile as 64-bit with all the
things you want.

I believe an RPM would only help installing R itself.  You still need most
of those rpm's if you are going to install add-on packages from source
(which you almost certainly need to, as pre-built binary packages are
available only for Windows/Mac/Debian).

Andy

> From: Kristian Eric Markon
> 
> I noticed on the mailing list archives and through Google 
> searches that 
> a couple of months ago there was discussion of maintaining 
> rpms for suse 
> 9.1 on the x86_64 architecture.
> 
> Are these rpms still planning on being released? It would help me a 
> great deal.
> 
> I've tried compiling from source using the R-base spec files 
> provided on 
> CRAN. Using that, I am able to produce a running version of R, but 
> readline doesn't seem to be working, nor does x11(). 
> Moreover, I'm not 
> sure that the compiled version is actually running in 64-bit 
> mode. I've 
> double-checked all the required libraries, and I seem to have 
> them all 
> to the correct version number (including readline and xfree).
> 
> The 32-bit rpms run on a 32-bit install of suse 9.1 on a different 
> machine, but not on the 64-bit install of suse 9.1 on a 
> x86_64 machine. 
> I suspect some of my problems have to do with libraries being in 
> different places in the 64-bit version of suse 9.1.
> 
> I could spend more time trying to compile it on my 
> machine--and probably 
> will, but I thought I would ask about any possible official 
> distribution 
> of rpms for suse 9.1 x86_64 first.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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