[Rd] doc/manual/Rfaq.css missing in R 2.8.0 (20081005) tarball

Peter Dalgaard p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
Mon Oct 6 08:26:40 CEST 2008


Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> With the standard setup unchanged from 2.7.2, I am seeing
>
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/r-base-2.8.0~20081005/po'
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/r-base-2.8.0~20081005/po'
> you should 'make docs' now ...
> make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/buildd/r-base-2.8.0~20081005/doc'
> make[3]: Entering directory `/tmp/buildd/r-base-2.8.0~20081005/doc/manual'
> make[3]: *** No rule to make target `Rfaq.css', needed by `R-FAQ.html'.  Stop.
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/r-base-2.8.0~20081005/doc/manual'
> make[2]: *** [docs] Error 2
>
> and indeed, diff'ing Makefile.in reveals a new dependency on Rfaq.css 
>
> @@ -249,6 +258,7 @@
>  R-intro.html: $(texiincludes) $(srcdir)/Rman.css
>  R-ints.html: $(texiincludes) $(srcdir)/Rman.css
>  R-lang.html: $(texiincludes) $(srcdir)/Rman.css
> +R-FAQ.html: $(srcdir)/Rfaq.css
>
>  info: $(OBJECTS_INFO)
>  R-admin.info: $(texiincludes)
>
> which does not seem to be included.  Consequently none of the html manuals
> are made.
>
> Simply copying Rman.css to Rfaq.css fixes the bug but may not be what was
> intended in terms of markup.
>
> Dirk
>
>   
Good catch. Rfaq.css was in SVN but missing from DISTFILES in 
Makefile.in. Should pop up in tomorrows tarball.

(This is why I keep telling people to use tarballs rather than SVN 
checkouts for test builds and binary distributions.)

    -p

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