[R] R/3.1.3 source installation

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This is the wrong list: see the posting guide.  As it is about compiled 
code, R-help is quite inappropriate, and as it is Mac-specific, post to 
R-sig-mac.

The issue appears to be that you did not follow the R-admin manual and 
used the wrong Fortran compiler: gfortran-4.2.3 is documented for 
Mountain Lion or earlier.  But you did not say exactly what you did use ....

On 09/03/2015 17:47, White Sky wrote:
> R 3.1.3 is available for installation via source-code.
> However ./configure terminates with
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> checking for dummy main to link with Fortran 77 libraries... none
> checking for Fortran 77 name-mangling scheme... unknown
> configure: WARNING: unknown Fortran name-mangling scheme
> checking whether gfortran appends underscores to external names... unknown
> configure: error: cannot use Fortran
> Mac OSX 10.9.5 gfortran-4.2.3 (64bit)
> Underscores are appended to external names by default but this doesn't seem to be recognised.
> I have a feeling the problem might in the configure* file## DANGER!  We really needs the results of _AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING as## stored in the cache var ac_cv_f77_mangling which is not documented
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> { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking whether ${F77} appends underscores to external names" >&5$as_echo_n "checking whether ${F77} appends underscores to external names... " >&6; }
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> if ${r_cv_prog_f77_append_underscore+:} false; then :
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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford
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