[R] Build problems on Windows with fpTeX and MiKTeX

[Prof Brian Ripley]

I am now able to do a rsync checkout, and share/texmf/hyperref.cfg is not 
there (which is correct).  I suggest you do a clean checkout.

On Sun, 28 Mar 2004, Roger Bivand wrote:

> On Sun, 28 Mar 2004, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 
> > hyperref.cfg is not there in the cvs sources ... which I think answers the 
> > point.  Did you use --delete on rsync?  The 1.9.0 beta FAQ has
> > 
> >      rsync -rC --delete rsync.R-project.org::MODULE R
> 
> $ rsync -rC --delete --verbose rsync.R-project.org::r-devel R-devel
> 
> was the command used, and many files were deleted, but not that one. I 
> saw something similar when the new structure was introduced, maybe my 
> rsync is malfunctioning:
> 
> rsync  version 2.5.7  protocol version 26
> 
> I checked in the 1.9.0beta for Windows - there is no hyperref.cfg in 
> share/texmf there.
> 
> > 
> > At present rsync.R-project.org is far too slow for me to test out what it 
> > picks up (there seems to be a network problem with it).
> > 
> > On Sun, 28 Mar 2004, Roger Bivand wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sun 28 March 2004, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> > > 
> > > > The fptex problem has been reported as happening on Unix too.  Rd.sty
> > > > was changed a little while ago, *but only* in 1.9.0 AFAIK.  Does 1.8.1
> > > > patched not work?  I have no problem with fptex, and presume Duncan M
> > > > does not either, as he is distributing binaries of 1.9.0 beta.
> > > 
> > > On Linux RH9, TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1) (format=latex
> > > 2003.12.27), using r-devel rsync'ed this morning (1.9.0 beta
> > > (2004-03-28)), checking a package gives:
> > > --------------------------
> > > (/home/rsb/topics/Rtobe190/lib/R/share/texmf/hyperref.cfg
> > > (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/color.sty
> > > Package: color 1999/02/16 v1.0i Standard LaTeX Color (DPC)
> > > 
> > > (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/color.cfg)
> > > 
> > > ! Package color Error: No driver specified.
> > > 
> > > See the color package documentation for explanation.
> > > Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
> > >  ...                                              
> > >                                                   
> > > l.123      }
> > >             
> > > You should make a default driver option in a file 
> > > color.cfg
> > > ------------------------
> > > but on r-patched 1.8.1 Patched (2004-02-17) everything is as it was:
> > > ------------------------
> > > (/home/rsb/topics/Rtobe181/lib/R/share/texmf/hyperref.cfg
> > > Package color Info: Redefining color Blue on input line 2.
> > > Package color Info: Redefining color Red on input line 3.
> > > Package hyperref Info: Option `hyperindex' set `true' on input line 16.
> > > Package hyperref Info: Option `colorlinks' set `true' on input line 16.
> > > Package hyperref Info: Option `linktocpage' set `true' on input line 16.
> > > Package hyperref Info: Option `plainpages' set `false' on input line 16.
> > > )
> > > -----------------------
> > > The issues seem to be around lines 220-240 in share/texmf/Rd.sty, but
> > > could be related to hyperref.cfg in the same directory - the new Rd.sty
> > > includes the same code as is in hyperref.cfg - should this file still be
> > > there? My TeX is too elementary to know, I'm afraid, but if hyperref.cfg
> > > is renamed to something else, the *.dvi checks to completion using devel
> > > without error, with log:
> > > -----------------------
> > > Package hyperref Info: Bookmarks ON on input line 1797.
> > > Package hyperref Info: Hyper figures OFF on input line 1816.
> > > Package hyperref Info: Link nesting OFF on input line 1821.
> > > Package hyperref Info: Hyper index ON on input line 1824.
> > > Package hyperref Info: Plain pages ON on input line 1829.
> > > Package hyperref Info: Backreferencing OFF on input line 1836.
> > > -----------------------
> > > Renaming/removing hyperref.cfg is also suggested by its absence in the 
> > > devel tarball, so this could be a result of rsync not deleting a stale and 
> > > now unneeded file, which then gets read and used. 
> > > 
> > > My color.cfg says:
> > > -------------------------
> > > \@ifundefined{pdfoutput}%
> > >   {\let\pdfoutput\@undefined
> > >    \ExecuteOptions{dvips}}%
> > >   {\ifcase\pdfoutput
> > >       \ExecuteOptions{dvips}%
> > >    \else
> > >       \ExecuteOptions{pdftex}%
> > >    \fi}%
> > > --------------------------
> > > I looked at this because I wanted to check packages I answer for on the 
> > > beta version, and had deleted the original mails about this before meeting 
> > > the same problem myself.
> > > 
> > > Roger
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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