[Bioc-devel] package build failing in Windows with "Failed to locate the 'texi2pdf' output file"

[Ramon Diaz-Uriarte]

Thanks Dan.

Best,

R.


On Tue, 29-03-2016, at 17:03, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at fredhutch.org> wrote:
> This error happens once in a while. It's very hard to reproduce because of that (which is probably why I never received a reply when reporting the issue on R-devel), but the 'solution' is to wait until the next build report and it will be gone.
>
> I just manually built your package on moscato2 and it was fine.
>
> Dan
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ramon Diaz-Uriarte" <rdiaz02 at gmail.com>
>> To: "bioc-devel" <bioc-devel at r-project.org>
>> Cc: "ramon diaz" <ramon.diaz at iib.uam.es>
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2016 1:34:04 AM
>> Subject: [Bioc-devel] package build failing in Windows with "Failed to	locate the 'texi2pdf' output file"
>
>> Dear All,
>> 
>> I have a package, ADaCGH2, that I just noticed has failed to build in
>> Windows in the latest report
>> (https://www.bioconductor.org/checkResults/devel/bioc-LATEST/ADaCGH2/moscato2-buildsrc.html).
>> The
>> error is the dreaded
>> 
>> Error in find_vignette_product(name, by = "texi2pdf", engine = engine) :
>>  Failed to locate the 'texi2pdf' output file (by engine 'utils::Sweave')
>>  for vignette
>> 
>> 
>> But I just run the build and check three times on a local windows machine
>> (with 3.3.0 alpha, r70387) and build and check are fine. Moreover, this
>> package has not changed at all in a long time, so I do not understand why
>> it should be failing now when it was not failing in previous reports
>> (though I am not sure when it first started failing) and there is, in fact,
>> a Windows binary for this version from the BioC page
>> (https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/3.3/bioc/html/ADaCGH2.html).
>> 
>> I am not sure how to proceed.
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> R.
>> 
>> --
>> Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
>> Department of Biochemistry, Lab B-25
>> Facultad de Medicina
>> Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
>> Arzobispo Morcillo, 4
>> 28029 Madrid
>> Spain
>> 
>> Phone: +34-91-497-2412
>> 
>> Email: rdiaz02 at gmail.com
>>       ramon.diaz at iib.uam.es
>> 
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>> 
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-- 
Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
Department of Biochemistry, Lab B-25
Facultad de Medicina
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 
Arzobispo Morcillo, 4
28029 Madrid
Spain

Phone: +34-91-497-2412

Email: rdiaz02 at gmail.com
       ramon.diaz at iib.uam.es

http://ligarto.org/rdiaz