[Rd] 2.7.0 beta (rev 45263) failing 'make vignettes'

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sat, 12 Apr 2008, Gavin Simpson wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> On Fedora 8 I downloaded the beta version of R via svn. make and make
> check-all worked fine, but make vignettes is failing with:
>
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/gavin/R/2-7-patched/build/src/library'
> building/updating vignettes for package 'grid' ...
> processing 'displaylist.Snw'
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: pdflatex exited with bad status, quitting.
> Error in texi2dvi(texfile, pdf = TRUE, quiet = TRUE) :
>  running 'texi2dvi' on 'displaylist.tex' failed
> Calls: <Anonymous> -> texi2dvi
> Execution halted
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/R/2-7-patched/build/src/library'
>
> If I attempt to manually use texi2dvi --pdf on that file I see that
> texi2dvi cannot find Sweave.sty:

That is intentional -- it should be setting TEXINPUTS.  But there was an 
error in the setting in that version, corrected in r45269 (I hope).

BDR

>
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: Running pdflatex --file-line-error '././src/library/.vignettes/displaylist.tex' ...
> This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
> file:line:error style messages enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (././src/library/.vignettes/displaylist.tex
> LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
> Babel <v3.8d> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, b
> ahasa, basque, bulgarian, catalan, croatian, czech, danish, dutch, esperanto, e
> stonian, finnish, greek, icelandic, irish, italian, latin, magyar, norsk, polis
> h, portuges, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak, slovene, spanish, swedish, tur
> kish, ukrainian, nohyphenation, loaded.
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
> Document Class: article 2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
>
> ! LaTeX Error: File `Sweave.sty' not found.
>
> At this point if I tell texi2dvi where to find Sweave.sty, the vignettes
> builds.
>
> Is this intentional and I have not done something I should have? (I did
> check the relevant section of the installation manual.) Past versions
> have built vignettes correctly.
>
> Version Info Below:
>> version
>               _
> platform       i686-pc-linux-gnu
> arch           i686
> os             linux-gnu
> system         i686, linux-gnu
> status         beta
> major          2
> minor          7.0
> year           2008
> month          04
> day            12
> svn rev        45263
> language       R
> version.string R version 2.7.0 beta (2008-04-12 r45263)
>
> All the best,
>
> G
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