[Rd] possible Sweave problem in rdevel build on Debian 6.0.8?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Please try again: I could reproduce this on one system prior to r64100.

On 22/10/2013 20:12, Skye Bender-deMoll wrote:
> Dear R-Devel,
>
> Note:  I posted a similar message to R-sig-debian yesterday because I
> assumed it was a Debian issue, received response that it it may be more
> appropriate for r-devel since it involves building from the svn version.
>
> As of Oct 21, we are running into a build failure when trying to
> compile the development version of R from the svn repository.  The
> problem still persists as of Revision:64096:
>
> We are running:
>
> ./configure && make -j4 distclean && ./configure && make -j4
>
> [lots of normal compile output not shown...]
>
> building/updating vignettes for package 'utils' ...
> processing 'Sweave.Rnw'
> Error: running Sweave on vignette
> '/net/home/rpackagebuilder/src/R.trunk/src/library/utils/vignettes/Sweave.Rnw'
>
>
> failed with message:
> <text>:1:1: unexpected '|'
> 1: |
>        ^
> Execution halted
> make[1]: *** [vignettes-lattice] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/net/home/rpackagebuilder/src/R.trunk/src/library'
> make: *** [vignettes] Error 2
>
>
> The same vignette compiles without error on the same machine using the
> stable release version of R (which we also build from source with same
> commands).
>
> Dirk reported yesterday that he was unable to reproduce the problem on
> r-devel svn "..Using Ubuntu 13.04, current"
>
> Does anyone have suggestions on how I might debug this further to
> determine if this is an issue with Sweave, or something with our system
> configuration which would impact one build and not the other?  When I
> diff the files in utils I see quite a few changes to Sweave between the
> stable and devel branches, but I'm not sure how to interpret them.
>
> thanks for your help,
>     -skye
>
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