GCC fails to install

[Charles White]

1) Installing R is my immediate goal for installing GCC and a  
necessary condition to my running MacPorts. Sufficient condition for  
my running MacPorts is running R, GnuCash, and an SSH friendly file  
manager on my Mac desktop. There are a handful of other open source  
software packages I'd like to run also.

2) I was running the binary distribution of R. Version 2.5.0 (the  
latest) comes with an update installation of tcl/tk. As far as I can  
tell, updating tcl/tk on the Mac keeps MacPorts from installing. I  
intentionally updated tcl/tk when I first bought this machine a year  
ago because I was using it to script menus for my R programs. I don't  
do that sort of thing anymore, wanted to try MacPorts, and couldn't  
figure out how to back out my tcl/tk update so I backed up all of my  
personal files, reinstalled OSX, and tried to use MacPorts to install  
GCC on bare metal. One thing I know for sure, there isn't any  
software conflict keeping GCC from installing. ;-)

Chuck

On May 15, 2007, at 1:47 PM, Marc André Selig wrote:

> On 5/15/07, Charles White <chuck at chuckandmaggi.com> wrote:
>> 3) My eventual goal is to install R for statistical computing.
>
> I realize this may be besides the point, but there is a binary
> distribution of R for OS X (including an Aqua interface) available
> from http://cran.r-project.org.  If your main goal is just to use R,
> this might save you some hassle.
>
> Regards,
> Marc