[Rd] r-base build: failure to convert R-FAQ to pdf

[Cesare Tirabassi]

We have received an email in Ubuntu alerting us that something strange was 
going on during the r-base 2.7.1 rc build (see [1]).

It seems that there is an error during the convertion of R-FAQ.texi to pdf.
The following excerpt, taken from [2], shows the problem:

/bin/sh: line 0: test: too many arguments
TEXINPUTS=".:$TEXINPUTS" /usr/bin/texi2dvi --texinfo="@set 
UseExternalXrefs " --pdf R-FAQ.texi
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: Running 
pdfetex --file-line-error '/build/buildd/r-base-2.7.1~20080621/doc/manual/R-FAQ.t2d/pdf/xtr/R-FAQ.texi' ...
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
 file:line:error style messages enabled.
 %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
! I can't find file `/build/buildd/r-base-2.7.1'.
<to be read again> 
                   \penalty 
~->\penalty 
            \@M \ 
<*> /build/buildd/r-base-2.7.1~
                               
20080621/doc/manual/R-FAQ.t2d/pdf/xtr/R-FAQ.texi
Please type another input file name: 
! Emergency stop.
<to be read again> 
                   \penalty 
~->\penalty 
            \@M \ 
<*> /build/buildd/r-base-2.7.1~
                               
20080621/doc/manual/R-FAQ.t2d/pdf/xtr/R-FAQ.texi

!  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
Transcript written on texput.log.
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: pdfetex exited with bad status, quitting.
make[2]: *** [R-FAQ.pdf] Error 1

Opinions?

Cheers,

Cesare

[1]https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2008-June/004125.html
[2]http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=r-base;ver=2.7.1%7E20080621-1;arch=amd64;stamp=1214071405