Re: [Rd] Building manuals are failing now that MikTex 2.9 has removed texi2dvi.exe
On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 1:44 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > Hmm, look in MkRules.dist for the setting you failed to make Obviously > available in R-patched and R-devel only as we cannot foretell such changes. > >[snip] Yes, I see my error. For efficiency, I had copied in an old pre-filled Mkrules.local; penny wise and pound foolish. > Note what the posting guide says about not abusing the word 'crash'. My apologies for the word "crash." More accurate would have been "properly halted." Thank you very much, Avi __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Re: [Rd] Building manuals are failing now that MikTex 2.9 has removed texi2dvi.exe
Hmm, look in MkRules.dist for the setting you failed to make Obviously available in R-patched and R-devel only as we cannot foretell such changes. On 09/10/2015 06:24, Avraham Adler wrote: According to the MikTex bug reports [1], MikTex 2.9 has removed texi2dvi.exe last week (on 2015-09-29) as "it was not compatible (anymore) with the original shell script texi2dvi (GNU Texinfo)." I found this out the hard way as I just (unknowingly) updated MikTex this evening, and then, while building R-devel_2015-10-08 on Windows7 64bit using the Rtools 3.3 toolchain (4.9.3 branch), had it crash Note what the posting guide says about not abusing the word 'crash'. during `make manuals` with: Output written on fullrefman.pdf (3468 pages, 9511515 bytes). Transcript written on fullrefman.log. creating doc/manual/version.texi texi2dvi --pdf --texinfo="@set UseExternalXrefs " R-FAQ.texi texi2dvi: not found make[1]: *** [R-FAQ.pdf] Error 127 make: *** [manuals] Error 2 Outside of trying to dig up an old (and now obsolete) version of the executable, what can be, or should be, done to build the manuals, or have we lost that ability? Thank you, Avi [1] http://sourceforge.net/p/miktex/bugs/2400/ -- Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford 1 South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TG, UK __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
[Rd] Building manuals are failing now that MikTex 2.9 has removed texi2dvi.exe
According to the MikTex bug reports [1], MikTex 2.9 has removed texi2dvi.exe last week (on 2015-09-29) as "it was not compatible (anymore) with the original shell script texi2dvi (GNU Texinfo)." I found this out the hard way as I just (unknowingly) updated MikTex this evening, and then, while building R-devel_2015-10-08 on Windows7 64bit using the Rtools 3.3 toolchain (4.9.3 branch), had it crash during `make manuals` with: Output written on fullrefman.pdf (3468 pages, 9511515 bytes). Transcript written on fullrefman.log. creating doc/manual/version.texi texi2dvi --pdf --texinfo="@set UseExternalXrefs " R-FAQ.texi texi2dvi: not found make[1]: *** [R-FAQ.pdf] Error 127 make: *** [manuals] Error 2 Outside of trying to dig up an old (and now obsolete) version of the executable, what can be, or should be, done to build the manuals, or have we lost that ability? Thank you, Avi [1] http://sourceforge.net/p/miktex/bugs/2400/ __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
