[R] problem building dvi and pdf documentation on Darwin 10.2.6

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

"Mark E. Perkins" <perkinsm at bway.net> writes:

> I just installed R-1.7.0 on Darwin 6.6 (a.k.a. MacOS 10.2.6). 
> 'make' and 'make check' run without any problems. 'make info' 
> builds with no complaints, but 'make dvi' and 'make pdf' fail. 
> I get refman.dvi and refman.pdf OK (with some warnings from 
> pdftex that some names are referenced that do not exist), but 
> R-FAQ.{dvi,pdf} fails as shown below. Attempts to build the other 
> R-{intro,admin,...}.{dvi,pdf} (manually via 'make xyzzy') fail 
> similarly.
> 
> My last serious experience with TeX was some years ago, so I'm not 
> sure if this a glitch in the input files, a borken TeX installation 
> (mine is teTeX 2.0.2 built via fink), or some (other) Darwin-related 
> problem.
> 
> If someone with a better understanding of these things can point 
> me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it.
> 
...
> TEXINPUTS=".:$TEXINPUTS" ../../bin/texi2dvi --texinfo="@set
> UseExternalXrefs" R-FAQ.texi
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5)
> (/tmp/t2d10777/xtr/R-FAQ.texi (./texinfo.tex
> Loading texinfo [version 2002-03-26.08]: Basics, pdf, fonts, page headings,
> tables, conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc, environments, defuns,
> macros,
> cross references, (/sw/share/texmf/tex/generic/misc/epsf.tex) localization,
> and turning on texinfo input format.)
> ! Missing @endcsname inserted.
> <to be read again> 
>                    @let 
> @parsearg #1->@let 
>                    @next = #1 at begingroup @obeylines @futurelet @temp
> @parsea...
> <argument> UseExternalXrefs at settitle 
>                                      R
> @setzzz ...tzzz ->@expandafter @gdef @csname SET#1
>                                                   @endcsname {#2}
> @setyyy ... @empty @else @setzzz {#1}#2 at endsetzzz 
>                                                   @fi @endgroup 
> l.5 @set UseExternalXrefs at settitle R FAQ
>                                         
> ? [I type <return> here]
> 
> (/sw/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-en.tex) [1] [-1] Chapter 1 (./R-FAQ.tmp)
> Cross reference values unknown; you must run TeX again. Chapter 2 [1] [2]
> [3] (./R-FAQ.tmp) (./R-FAQ.tmp) [4] [5] (./R-FAQ.tmp) (./R-FAQ.tmp)
> (./R-FAQ.tmp) (./R-FAQ.tmp) [6] (./R-FAQ.tmp) (./R-FAQ.tmp) (./R-FAQ.tmp)
> (./R-FAQ.tmp) (./R-FAQ.tmp) [7] (./R-FAQ.tmp) [8] [9] Chapter 3 [10]
> (./R-FAQ.tmp) (./R-FAQ.tmp) (./R-FAQ.tmp) (./R-FAQ.tmp) (./R-FAQ.tmp) [11]
> (./R-FAQ.tmp) [12] [13] [14] [15] (./R-FAQ.tmp) [16] (./R-FAQ.tmp)
> (./R-FAQ.tmp
> ) (./R-FAQ.tmp) Chapter 4 [17] (./R-FAQ.tmp) Chapter 5 [18] [19]
> (./R-FAQ.tmp)
> [20] (./R-FAQ.tmp) (./R-FAQ.tmp) [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27]
> (./R-FAQ.tmp) [28] (./R-FAQ.tmp) [29] (./R-FAQ.tmp) [30] (./R-FAQ.tmp)
> (./R-FAQ.tmp) (./R-FAQ.tmp) [31] (./R-FAQ.tmp) (./R-FAQ.tmp) (./R-FAQ.tmp)
> (./R-FAQ.tmp) (./R-FAQ.tmp) (./R-FAQ.tmp) (./R-FAQ.tmp) [32] [33] [34] [35]
> 
> WARNING: for users of Unix TeX 3.0!
> This manual trips a bug in TeX version 3.0 (tex hangs).
> If you are running another version of TeX, relax.
> If you are running Unix TeX 3.0, kill this TeX process.
>  Then upgrade your TeX installation if you can.
>  (See ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/TeX.README.)
> If you are stuck with version 3.0, run the
>  script ``tex3patch'' from the Texinfo distribution
>  to use a workaround.
> 
> Chapter 6 [36] (./R-FAQ.tmp) (./R-FAQ.tmp) (./R-FAQ.tmp) [37] Chapter 7
> [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] (./R-FAQ.tmp) Chapter 8 [46]
> Chapter 9
> [47] [48] Chapter 10 [49] [50] )
> Output written on R-FAQ.dvi (52 pages, 156736 bytes).
> Transcript written on R-FAQ.log.
> ../../bin/texi2dvi: tex exited with bad status, quitting.
> ../../bin/texi2dvi: see R-FAQ.log for errors.

It might be informative to take that hint since the log files are
somewhat more verbose about exactly what is going on. 

It's not your texinfo version -- mine is exactly the same. However,
there are probably very few people running teTeX 2.x so there could be
an obscure installation problem with that.

It looks like your troubles begin where TeX is supposed to be
processing R-FAQ.aux. It can happen that TeX gets wedged when there's a
problem with that so you could try deleting it.

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