Inline below... > On 21 May 2017, at 20:57 , Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 21/05/2017 10:30 AM, Peter Carbonetto wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I uncovered a bug in installing R 3.4.0 from source in Linux, following the >> standard procedure (configure; make; make install). Is this an appropriate >> place to report this bug? If not, can you please direct me to the >> appropriate place? > > Generally R-devel is better; I've responded there. > >> >> The error occurs only when I do "make clean" followed by "make" again; make >> works the first time. >> >> The error is a failure to build NEWS.pdf: >> >> Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet, : >> pdflatex is not available >> Calls: <Anonymous> -> texi2pdf -> texi2dvi >> Execution halted >> make[1]: *** [NEWS.pdf] Error 1 >> make: [docs] Error 2 (ignored) >> >> and can be reproduced wit the following sequence: >> >> ./configure >> make >> make clean >> make > > We usually don't build in the source directory; see the second recommendation > in the admin manual section 2.1. So it's possible there's a bug triggered > when you do that. Can you try building in a separate directory?
Notice that the error is that "pdflatex" is missing from your setup. We do, for the benefit of users with defective TeX installations supply a pre-built NEWS.pdf (and NEWS.html too) in the source tarballs. However, they are technically make targets and make clean will wipe them; in that case, you had better have the tools to rebuild them! -pd > > Duncan Murdoch > >> >> This suggests to me that perhaps "make clean" is not working. >> >> I'm happy to provide more details so that you are able to reproduce the bug. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Peter Carbonetto, Ph.D. >> Computational Staff Scientist, Statistics & Genetics >> Research Computing Center >> University of Chicago >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> r-h...@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel