[Rd] [R] Somewhat obscure bug in R 3.4.0 building from source

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 21/05/2017 10:30 AM, Peter Carbonetto wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I uncovered a bug in installing R 3.4.0 from source in Linux, following the
> standard procedure (configure; make; make install). Is this an appropriate
> place to report this bug? If not, can you please direct me to the
> appropriate place?

Generally R-devel is better; I've responded there.

>
> The error occurs only when I do "make clean" followed by "make" again; make
> works the first time.
>
> The error is a failure to build NEWS.pdf:
>
> Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet,  :
>   pdflatex is not available
> Calls: <Anonymous> -> texi2pdf -> texi2dvi
> Execution halted
> make[1]: *** [NEWS.pdf] Error 1
> make: [docs] Error 2 (ignored)
>
> and can be reproduced wit the following sequence:
>
> ./configure
> make
> make clean
> make

We usually don't build in the source directory; see the second 
recommendation in the admin manual section 2.1.  So it's possible 
there's a bug triggered when you do that.  Can you try building in a 
separate directory?

Duncan Murdoch

>
> This suggests to me that perhaps "make clean" is not working.
>
> I'm happy to provide more details so that you are able to reproduce the bug.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter Carbonetto, Ph.D.
> Computational Staff Scientist, Statistics & Genetics
> Research Computing Center
> University of Chicago
>
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