Makeinfo >= 4.0 is required to build R's documentation under Linux, and to cross-build you have to be able to build R. The INSTALL file does say you need makeinfo (and I will add a version requirement).
That applies to 1.6.2beta (and 1.6.1) as well, but in those versions a current rw-FAQ.html is shipped so you only need makeinfo to re-make the file. Texinfo 3.12 is really rather old. On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Jun Yan wrote: > I was cross-building R-devel (1.7.0). The tail of the error message > from running make on a machine with makeinfo (GNU texinfo 3.12) 1.68 > is at the end of this email. The same procedure went fine on a machine > with makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.1. > > My first guess is that the version of makeinfo is causing this. However, > this didn't happen with R-1.6.2beta. Please advise. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
