[R] make dvi fails

[William D. McCoy]

I am working with a RedHat 9 system with gcc 3.2.2, makeinfo 4.3, and
perl 5.8.

I have just downloaded the latest r-patched with rsync and
successfully compiled the code and passed the tests conducted with
'make check'.

After that, 'make dvi' gives the following result:

make dvi
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/R/doc'
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/R/doc/manual'
creating doc/manual/version.tex
collecting LaTeX docs for package 'base' ...
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/R/src/library'
 >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'base'
     Formats: latex 
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/R/src/library'
collecting LaTeX docs for package 'methods' ...
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/R/src/library'
 >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'methods'
     Formats: latex 
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/R/src/library'
collecting LaTeX docs for package 'tools' ...
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/R/src/library'
 >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'tools'
     Formats: latex 
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/R/src/library'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `-pkg.tex', needed by `stamp-refman-dvi'.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/R/doc/manual'
make[1]: *** [dvi] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/R/doc'
make: [dvi] Error 2 (ignored)


'make pdf' gives:

make pdf
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/R/doc'
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/R/doc/manual'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `-pkg.tex', needed by `stamp-refman-pdf'.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/R/doc/manual'
make[1]: *** [pdf] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/R/doc'
make: [pdf] Error 2 (ignored)


'make info' works fine.

Is there something wrong with the makefile?  Why the "No rule to make
target `-pkg.tex', needed by `stamp-refman-dvi[or pdf]" messages?  Any
idea what the problem is?

-- 
William D. McCoy
Geosciences
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA  01003