[Phylobase-devl] Rcpp and OS X compiliation

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 11 January 2010 at 12:18, Peter Cowan wrote:
| On Jan 11, 2010, at 6:55 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| 
| [snip]
| 
| > I am still game. I see a three-pronged approach:
| > 
| >  i)    Suggestion Let's fix NCL and have a locally built version outside 
| >        of phylobase on all test platforms
| 
| Is this only for testing purposes, or are you envisioning distributing them separately?

Yes, sorry -- just for purposes of squaring this test off.  

I did not mean to imply we should change phylobase in any way.  I just want
to help you make your life easier as Rcpp can actually do that (or so I hope).
 
| >  ii)   With that, fix/simplify Rcpp usage. Should be easy
| > 
| >  iii)  With that, get back to i) and clean up NCL's configure.
| > 
| > I think it would be easier to disentangle Rcpp and NCL inside phylobase while
| > we make this more.
| > 
| > Who else can work with us on this, and in particular provide OS X skillz and
| > testing?
| 
| I'm happy to help w/ OS X testing, but I'm not very familiar with C++, make or configure files.

Thanks for the offer.  Simple 'yay' or 'nay' about the 'does it build and
run' will help, but you'd need to have a locally built NCL around so that we
can do i).  Can you build one and get to the OS X equivalent of /usr/local --
ie somewhere where it will be found unaided?

Dirk
 
| Peter
| 
| > Dirk
| > 
| > 
| > | Brian
| > | 
| > | 
| > | >
| > | > | I'm sure the make files for NCL could be greatly simplified which  
| > | > could
| > | > | help. But, it is currently beyond my abilities, and I don't  
| > | > currently have
| > | > | the time to learn the make.
| > | >
| > | > Ideally we would able to assume that the user has already installed  
| > | > ncl. In
| > | > the real world down here that may never be the case, alas.
| > | >
| > | > Dirk
| > | >
| > | > -- 
| > | > Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.
| > | 
| > | ------------------------------------------------------
| > | Brian O'Meara
| > | http://www.brianomeara.info
| > | Assistant Prof.
| > | Dept. Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
| > | U. of Tennessee, Knoxville
| > | 
| > 
| > -- 
| > Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.
| 

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Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.