On 22/05/2017 18:16, Peter Carbonetto wrote:
Hi Peter, Duncan & Bert,
Thank you kindly for the responses.
Indeed, doc/NEWS.pdf is included in the source distribution, and then
removed upon "make clean".
I thought that it might be useful to report this for your benefit, but on
closer inspection it appears that I'm getting errors that arise due to
incompatibilities in my texlive and texinfo installations. This is the
error I get when trying to build NEWS.pdf using "R CMD Rd2pdf":
R CMD Rd2pdf --output=NEWS.pdf NEWS.Rd
Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet, :
Running 'texi2dvi' on 'Rd2.tex' failed.
Messages:
/software/texinfo-6.3-el7-x86_64/bin/texi2dvi: TeX neither supports
-recorder nor outputs \openout lines in its log file
Output:
I'm not sure what to make of this error exactly but perhaps it is
introduced by the latest version of texinfo (which seems to be a recurring
issue based on reading the help for texi2dvi in R):
texi2dvi --version
texi2dvi (GNU Texinfo 6.3) 7353
Please do not speculate (see the posting guide and FAQ).
That version is thoroughly tested. texinfo troubles were mainly in the
transition to Perl ca 5.[012], and its slow adoption by distros: another
holdback has been the transition to GPL-3-only licensing, AFAIR at 6.0.
Peter
On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 5:07 PM, Peter Dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote:
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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
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