Re: Update of math/R in pkgsrc

I am happy to report that for the first time since quite some time I was able to get a proper running R with your patch using -current 8.99.1 amd64, -current pkgsrc and gcc7.1. The only manual operation I had to do during the compilation was to add ' -lfortran' to the link command of R itself; after that everything went smoothly. The tests also pass (modulo one math error in the complex number test - an _expression_ is returning NaN whilst the test expects a number). All the R demos work fine as well.

Chavdar Ivanov

On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 at 14:32 Jason Bacon <bacon4000%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

On 07/27/17 07:04, Mark Davies wrote:
>
> On 27/07/17 20:54, wen heping wrote:
>> 1 update to 3.4.1
>> 2 rename patch-ac to patch-configure
>> 3 use gfortran instead of g95 to compile the package
> I'm not sure that a package should be setting PKGSRC_FORTRAN
>
> cheers
> mark

My understanding is that PKGSRC_FORTRAN is meant for the end-user to put
in mk.conf. I always set it to gfortran on our systems.

Are there any supported platforms on which the gcc packages currently
don't work? If so, this would actually break the package for some. If
not, it at least forces a big dependency that some people may not want,
e.g. users of clang-based systems with minimal Fortran needs.

There are only 3 packages in 2017Q2 that force it:

benchmarks/benchfft/Makefile:PKGSRC_FORTRAN= gfortran
biology/mopac/Makefile:PKGSRC_FORTRAN= f2c
biology/mpqc/Makefile:PKGSRC_FORTRAN= f2c # XXX force f2c for now

Otherwise, thanks for the patch. We use R heavily and often encounter a
need to run the latest release.

Cheers,

JB

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