[R-pkg-devel] Failing vignette engine for package rasciidoc on solaris

[Andreas Dominik Cullmann]

Dear Duncan,
thank you very much, saved my day!
Best,
Dominik
On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 08:17:17, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 23/11/2020 7:07 a.m., Andreas Dominik Cullmann via R-package-devel wrote:
> > Dear List,
> > one of my packages, rasciidoc (a simple wrapper to 'knitr' and 'asciidoc'),
> > includes a minimal vigentte engine.
> > When submitting the package with a vignette using that engine, the vignette is
> > re-built on all platforms except for r-patched-solaris-x86:
> > https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_rasciidoc.html
> > https://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-patched-solaris-x86/rasciidoc-00check.html
> > 
> > Maybe rasciidoc's vignette engine is somewhat superfluous, but since it works
> > for all platforms except solaris, I kind of would like to use it.
> > 
> > I cannot reproduce the error using rhub:
> >    ## Test environments
> >    - R-hub solaris-x86-patched-ods (r-release)
> >    ## R CMD check results
> >    ❯ On solaris-x86-patched-ods (r-release)
> >      checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... WARNING
> >      Maintainer: ‘Andreas Dominik Cullmann <fvafrcu using mailbox.org>’
> >      Insufficient package version (submitted: 2.2.1, existing: 2.2.1)
> >      Days since last update: 5
> >    ❯ On solaris-x86-patched-ods (r-release)
> >      checking top-level files ... NOTE
> >      Files ‘README.md’ or ‘NEWS.md’ cannot be checked without ‘pandoc’ being installed.
> >    ❯ On solaris-x86-patched-ods (r-release)
> >      checking examples ... NOTE
> >      Examples with CPU (user + system) or elapsed time > 5s
> >                 user system elapsed
> >      rasciidoc 2.724  0.352   48.75
> >    0 errors ✔ | 1 warning ✖ | 2 notes ✖
> > 
> > 
> > And I happen to have no solaris box at hand for testing.
> > Does anybody have any suggestion on how I could tackle this?
> 
> The error message says:   "Can't find program `source-highlight`. Please
> install first (http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite/)."  You have listed
> this in SystemRequirements as "recommended", but even if you had listed it
> as required, your build shouldn't fail if it is not found:  it should test
> for that program, and continue on if it is not there.  For example, it could
> output a vignette containing nothing except the warning message that
> source-highlight is needed to build the vignette. This is described in
> Section 1.6, "Writing portable packages", of Writing R Extensions.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch

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