Bug#815734: regression: ESS cannot be compiled

2016-03-06 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 6 March 2016 at 13:23, Norbert Preining wrote: | Dear all | | > BINGO -- once I add that things pass with the new texinfo.tex | | Good. | | I have uploaded texinfo -5 just now, should be in the repos in | no time. | | After this, please remove the old texinfo.tex copies - we had to |

Bug#815734: regression: ESS cannot be compiled

2016-03-05 Thread Norbert Preining
Dear all > BINGO -- once I add that things pass with the new texinfo.tex Good. I have uploaded texinfo -5 just now, should be in the repos in no time. After this, please remove the old texinfo.tex copies - we had to fight with outdated texinfo.tex for too often around the 4.8 times, I try to

Bug#815734: regression: ESS cannot be compiled

2016-03-05 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 6 March 2016 at 11:15, Norbert Preining wrote: | Hi all, | | On Sat, 05 Mar 2016, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > kpathsea: Running mktexmf ecrm1440 | | apt-get install texlive-fonts-recommended BINGO -- once I add that things pass with the new texinfo.tex | Since 6.0 or so in some

Bug#815734: regression: ESS cannot be compiled

2016-03-05 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi all, On Sat, 05 Mar 2016, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > kpathsea: Running mktexmf ecrm1440 apt-get install texlive-fonts-recommended Since 6.0 or so in some circumstances this is necessary, due to the usage of T1 encoded fonts. It depends on the texi input file, so it is not a strong

Bug#815734: regression: ESS cannot be compiled

2016-03-05 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 5 March 2016 at 19:11, Martin Maechler wrote: | Well, I'm not so much of a "real texinfo user", but | @Dirk: You must have messed up badly: In your run Metafont is called | because tex can't find fonts, and then "tears indeed". The observation is correct, the inference is not. This is the

Bug#815734: regression: ESS cannot be compiled

2016-03-05 Thread Martin Maechler
Well, I'm not so much of a "real texinfo user", but @Dirk: You must have messed up badly: In your run Metafont is called because tex can't find fonts, and then "tears indeed". If I just do what Norbert suggested, placing his new texinfo.tex in my local directory then the minimal example runs

Bug#815734: regression: ESS cannot be compiled

2016-03-05 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 5 March 2016 at 23:37, Norbert Preining wrote: | Hi all (Debian only) | | On Sat, 05 Mar 2016, Gavin Smith wrote: | > Done in SVN revision 7041. Please email if there are further problems. | | I have prepare a new version of texinfo package, can you please check | whether the attached

Bug#815734: regression: ESS cannot be compiled

2016-03-05 Thread Norbert Preining
Thanks Gavin, > Done in SVN revision 7041. Please email if there are further problems. I have prepared a new version for Debian and asked the ess team to see if that works out. We will surely come back if there are any problems. Thanks a big big many times for your great support!!! Norbert

Bug#815734: regression: ESS cannot be compiled

2016-03-05 Thread Gavin Smith
On 4 March 2016 at 21:28, Gavin Smith wrote: > On 4 March 2016 at 04:01, Norbert Preining wrote: >> The output is: >> ./bla.texi:9: Argument of @gobblespaces has an extra }. > > I got the same. I think it's easy enough to fix. The only possible >

Bug#815734: regression: ESS cannot be compiled

2016-03-04 Thread Norbert Preining
Dear all, down here at Debian we got another bug report about a FTBFS, which went away when switching to an older version of texinfo.tex: On Thu, 03 Mar 2016, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > Ok, the obvious fix of fattening the source directory with a working copy of > texinfo.tex did the trick. I

Bug#815734: regression: ESS cannot be compiled

2016-03-04 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Just a quick 'thumbs up' from here -- it is actually quite remarkable that we do maintain buildability of these pieces over so many years and decaded, and I really appreciate how we're going calmly about the business of maintaining that tradition. Thanks to Norbert for distilling that minimal

Bug#815734: regression: ESS cannot be compiled

2016-03-04 Thread Martin Maechler
On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 10:38 PM, Gavin Smith wrote: >> > I have reduced the problematic case to the following minimal example: > > Thank you for taking the time to do this, Norbert. > >> From these two facts I'd declare that the new texinfo.tex that >> you have in

Bug#815734: regression: ESS cannot be compiled

2016-03-04 Thread Gavin Smith
> > I have reduced the problematic case to the following minimal example: Thank you for taking the time to do this, Norbert. > From these two facts I'd declare that the new texinfo.tex that > you have in Debian is broken. > (Yes, that is a strong statement; but still breaking something >

Bug#815734: regression: ESS cannot be compiled

2016-03-04 Thread Gavin Smith
On 4 March 2016 at 04:01, Norbert Preining wrote: > The output is: > ./bla.texi:9: Argument of @gobblespaces has an extra }. I got the same. I think it's easy enough to fix. The only possible problem is that this error comes about due to an attempt to remove whitespace

Bug#815734: regression: ESS cannot be compiled

2016-03-04 Thread Martin Maechler
> Norbert Preining > on Fri, 4 Mar 2016 13:01:23 +0900 writes: > Dear all, > down here at Debian we got another bug report about a FTBFS, which > went away when switching to an older version of texinfo.tex: > On Thu, 03 Mar 2016, Dirk