[R] ERROR: 'latex' needed but missing on your system.

[Joel J. Adamson]

Gad Abraham writes:
 > Joel J. Adamson wrote:
 > > After successfully building R on Slackware Linux v11.0 I went to make
 > > the documentation; the texi files went fine and then I hopefully issued
 > > 
 > > make dvi
 > > 
 > > after having gotten the warning to the effect of "You cannot build the
 > > DVI or PDF manuals, you are a loser" during compilation. And, as
 > > expected I got the
 > > error
 > > 
 > > ERROR: 'latex' needed but missing on your system.
 > 
 > It's a bit strange, because by default files like latex should be 
 > readable by all users. Did you install latex from source?

No, teTeX is installed as part of Slackware 11.0.  Yes, it's readable
by all users (including root, of course), but 
configure does not find it and issues a warning.  Then the "make dvi"
gives the error I quote above.

I think the real issue is my ignorance of makefiles and configure
scripts; I'm working on that.

 > Try this:
 > As root, do 'which latex' to see where it's installed. 

/usr/share/texmf/bin/latex is a symlink to pdfetex in the same
directory, also rwxr-xr-x, so it's executable by everybody.  Just to
remind you, I issed "make dvi" as root.

Joel

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Joel J. Adamson
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Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit
Massachusetts General Hospital
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