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

[Bert Gunter]

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On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 7:30 AM, Peter Carbonetto
<peter.carbonetto at gmail.com> 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?
>
> 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
>
> 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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