[R] R-2.0.1 Gentoo g77 problem

[Charles C. Berry]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Gabriel Rossetti wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I use Gentoo and I can't get R 2.0.1 to compile. I used the portage 
> system, Gentoo's source package sytem, and after it uncompresses the 
> source to R, it says that I don't have a fortran compiler. It told me to 
> use f77 flag and re-emerge gcc, which I did with the f77 and fortran 
> flags, but it still won't compile. Does anyone have any ideas? I suspect 
> that gcc has changed it's interworkings, because if I do a gcc -v it 
> says that I can compile fortran(f77) programs, but I don't have g77. If 
> anyone has any ideas or workarounds, it would be great. I really need it 
> for a P&S class. Thanks!


After experiencing similar problems and noticing that g77 was nowhere to 
be found, I symlinked /usr/bin/g77 --> /usr/bin/gcc.

R then built and passed 'make check'.

Surely there is something wrong with my approach that this hack is needed, 
but figuring out what is wrong is not high on my list...

BTW, I build R outside of portage and install R into /usr/local to avoid 
the lag between Gentoo ebuilds and the current R-release.

Chuck

>
> Gabriel
>
> My gcc version is :
> gcc version 3.3.5  (Gentoo Linux 3.3.5-r1, ssp-3.3.2-3, pie-8.7.7.1)
> --
>
>
>

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