[Rcpp-devel] Rcpp-FAQ vignette and OS X entries: Small update

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 3 August 2014 at 13:10, Kevin Ushey wrote:
| I think this bit:
| 
|     The \texttt{clang} and \texttt{clang++} compilers from the LLVM project can
|     also be used as they are inter-operable with \texttt{gcc} et al.  The
|     \texttt{clang++} compiler is interesting as it emits much more
|     comprehensible error messages than \texttt{g++} (though \texttt{g++} 4.8
|     and 4.9
|     have caught up).
| 
| needs to be amended. The standard library implementation used with gcc
| (libstdc++) is not ABI compatible with the one used with clang (libc++). This

My bad. On Linux it is. Will qualify. 
 
| Professor Ripley compiled a set of recommendations in a post on R-SIG-Mac that
| we could link to: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2014-April/
| 010835.html

Yes, thanks for the rmeinder. I had meant to link to this post as well. Will do.
 
| We might also link to the BioConductor guidelines for Mavericks + C++11
| development: http://www.bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/mavericks-howto/;
| it's a nice overview of the state of the world there.

Good one. Had seen that as well as promptly forgotten. 

| I can try to amend the vignette to this effect later and submit a PR. If anyone
| else on the list thinks I missed something here, let me know too.

I'd welcome that. I'll make a quick set of changes now, but there will always
be room for improvement.

Thanks!

Dirk

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