From Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at  Wed Jun  9 16:08:13 1999
From: Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at (Kurt Hornik)
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 17:08:13 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: packages with FORTRAN code
In-Reply-To: <375E79CE.351209E7@bank-banque-canada.ca>
References: <14174.7100.302238.935889@pc87.maho.magnaeu.com>
 <375E79CE.351209E7@bank-banque-canada.ca>
Message-ID: <14174.33629.902099.142359@pc87.maho.magnaeu.com>

>>>>> Paul Gilbert writes:

>> It would be great if the package maintainers could update their pkgs
>> accordingly.  Most likely, the best solution is to remove the Makefile
>> altogether.

> I like the idea that I shouldn't have to specify a Makefile (which I
> mess up regularly) and R INSTALL will magically work on all
> platforms. Is this available already in 0.64.1 or should I wait for
> 0.65?

That should work in 0.64.1.

> Currently with 0.64.1 in Solaris I'm getting "g77: unrecognized option
> `-PIC'" but things seem to work ok. I'm not specifying PIC so I think
> that it is being mistakenly added by R INSTALL.

Very strange.  The configure script has for solaris

    if ${f77_is_g77}; then
      FPICFLAGS=-fPIC
    else
      FPICFLAGS=-PIC
    fi

so maybe your g77 is not recognized as such.  What does

    g77 -v 2>&1

give?

-k

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packages with FORTRAN code
Kurt Hornik