[R] Building R-4,3,3 fails

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 8 Apr 2024, Ivan Krylov wrote:

> Questions about building R do get asked here and R-devel. Since you're
> compiling a released version of R and we don't have an R-SIG-Slackware
> mailing list, R-help sounds like the right place.

Ivan,

Okay:

> What are the last lines of the build log, containing the error message? If
> it's a LaTeX error, it may be that you need some extra TeX Live packages,
> there is a list in R-admin:
> https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Making-the-manuals

* DONE (mgcv)
make[2]: Leaving directory '/tmp/SBo/R-4.3.3/src/library/Recommended'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/SBo/R-4.3.3/src/library/Recommended'
make[1]: Entering directory '/tmp/SBo/R-4.3.3/src/library'
building/updating vignettes for package 'grid' ...
building/updating vignettes for package 'parallel' ...
building/updating vignettes for package 'utils' ...
building/updating vignettes for package 'stats' ...
processing 'reshape.Rnw'
Error: compiling TeX file 'reshape.tex' failed with message:
Running 'texi2dvi' on 'reshape.tex' failed.
Messages:
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: TeX neither supports -recorder nor outputs \openout lines in its log file
Execution halted
make[1]: *** [Makefile:103: vignettes] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/SBo/R-4.3.3/src/library'
make: *** [Makefile:81: vignettes] Error 2
# (running time: 12m3.057s)

I don't know why /usr/bin/texi2dvi doesn't support -recorder nor the other
error. TeXLive2023 had no issues building R-4.1.1.

Thanks,

Rich