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

[Skye Bender-deMoll]

That fixed it for me,  r64100 is building cleanly again.

thanks!
  -skye

On 10/23/2013 01:37 AM, peter dalgaard wrote:
> Affirmative. I was seeing this in 64099, but it disappeared with 64101. (OSX Lion if it matters to anyone)
>
> -pd
>
> On Oct 23, 2013, at 10:30 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>
>> 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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>>
>>
>> --
>> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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