Okay, a slight revision. 'make install' works fine when I build from the alpha tarballs (at least today's tarball works). The error only occurs when I build from SVN sources, both when builddir == srcdir and when the build dir is a separate directory.

-roger

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Roger D. Peng wrote:

When I build R-devel (or the alpha snapshots) on a system without makeinfo >= 4.7, I get a warning about not being able to build HTML/Info help pages after running 'configure' (but 'make' runs smoothly and there are no errors). However, when I run 'make install' I get an error, something like

make[2]: Entering directory `/home/rpeng/R-local/src/R-devel/doc/html'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/rpeng/R-local/src/R-devel/doc/manual'
creating doc/html/resources.html
make[3]: *** [../html/resources.html] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/rpeng/R-local/src/R-devel/doc/manual'
installing doc/html ...
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/rpeng/R-local/src/R-devel/doc/html/search'
installing doc/html/search ...
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/rpeng/R-local/src/R-devel/doc/html/search'
/usr/bin/install: cannot stat `resources.html': No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [install] Error 1
[... more errors ...]


Am I correct in assuming that I get this because I don't have the correct makeinfo version?


No.  The intention is that file should be in the tarball.  It seems to be.
Are you using builddir == srcdir or not?  Both seem to work for me.

The line

creating doc/html/resources.html


should not occur when building from a tarball, as it comes from

@if test ! -f "$(srcdir)/resources.html" || test -f non-tarball ; then \
(cd ../manual && $(MAKE) html-non-svn) ; \
touch non-tarball ; \


Have you perchance previously built from an SVN checkout in the same dir?

If so, is this the intended behavior of 'make install'? I figured I should be able to install R even if I couldn't build the HTML/Info help pages, but....


If building from a tarball, yes. The requirements for building from an SVN checkout are more stringent.


-- Roger D. Peng http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~rpeng/

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