[R] building R from source on gnu version >=5.4

[Jeff Newmiller]

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On September 7, 2016 1:17:10 AM PDT, Chinmay Borwankar <getchinmay at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>    I want to integrate R with ROOTv6.06, which requires that,
>    R be built with gcc compiler option "_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0" .
>  I am hoping that if I build R from source then there will be a way to
>do this.
>    Is there ?
>    Regards.