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

[Gavin Simpson]

On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 17:48 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 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).

Thanks Prof. Ripley, r45271 working fine for me.

All the best,

G

> 
> 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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