[Rd] Problem making the manuals (make dvi and make pdf)

[Rau, Roland]

Dear all,

I am trying to compile and install R from sources on Ubuntu GNU/Linux 64
bit. It usually worked flawlessly for me for more than 4 years (32bit
and 64bit on Mandrake/Mandriva, Suse, Debian, Ubuntu). However, I am
experiencing some problems now -- not during compiling and installing R
itself but with the manuals.

Maybe someone can help me with it? I tried to find some information in
the archives on the web but I was not successful.

Please let me explain therefore in detail where the problem is (incl.
some additional information):

Following the instructions in section 2.2 of the R Installation and
Administration Manual
(http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Making-the-manuals),
making the info manuals works fine via "make info"

However, when I want to make the dvi and pdf manuals, I get the
following error:
======================================================

Loading texinfo [version 2007-09-03.05]: pdf, fonts, page headings,
tables,
conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc, environments, defuns, macros,
cross references, insertions, (./epsf.tex
This is `epsf.tex' v2.7.3 <23 July 2005>
) localization, formatting, and turning on texinfo input format.)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/lilypond/txi-en.tex
/usr/share/texmf/tex/lilypond/txi-en.tex:22: Undefined control sequence.
l.22 \txisetlanguage
                    {USenglish}{2}{3}
? 
======================================================

The output I am pasting is from:
> version
               _                           
platform       x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu    
arch           x86_64                      
os             linux-gnu                   
system         x86_64, linux-gnu           
status                                     
major          2                           
minor          9.0                         
year           2009                        
month          04                          
day            17                          
svn rev        48333                       
language       R                           
version.string R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17)


I tried it yesterday also with the latest development and patched
releases --> same result.
Is it a TeX/LaTeX-problem?

Of course, I checked whether I have recent versions of makeinfo and
texi2dvi installed (which is mentioned in the manual). This seems to be
the case:

======================================================
root at roland-desktop-64bit:/extras/R/R-2.9.0# makeinfo --version
makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.11

Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
root at roland-desktop-64bit:/extras/R/R-2.9.0# texi2dvi --version
texi2dvi (GNU Texinfo 4.11) 1.104

Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

root at roland-desktop-64bit:/extras/R/R-2.9.0# texi2pdf --version
texi2dvi (GNU Texinfo 4.11) 1.104

Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

======================================================


and finally the output from ./configure

======================================================

R is now configured for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

  Source directory:          .
  Installation directory:    /usr/local

  C compiler:                gcc -std=gnu99  -g -O2
  Fortran 77 compiler:       gfortran  -g -O

  C++ compiler:              g++  -g -O2
  Fortran 90/95 compiler:    gfortran -g -O
  Obj-C compiler:	      

  Interfaces supported:      X11, tcltk
  External libraries:        readline
  Additional capabilities:   PNG, JPEG, iconv, MBCS, NLS
  Options enabled:           shared BLAS, R profiling

  Recommended packages:      yes

======================================================


Thanks in advance,
Roland

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