[R-SIG-Mac] [Rd] R CMD build looking for texi2dvi in the wrong place (R-devel)

[Simon Urbanek]

Ah, there was no announcement other than the discussions on requiring texinfo 5.1+ in R-devel and the NEWS: 
• ‘configure’ requires the ‘texi2any’ script from ‘texinfo’ 5.1 or later, in place of the ‘makeinfo’ program.
Since OS X ships with old texinfo we have to use a custom build. FWIW all this should really be on R-SIG-Mac - moving there.

Cheers,
Simon

On Jan 12, 2015, at 9:26 PM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at fredhutch.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Simon Urbanek" <simon.urbanek at r-project.org>
>> To: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>
>> Cc: "R-devel" <r-devel at r-project.org>
>> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 5:50:35 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Rd] R CMD build looking for texi2dvi in the wrong place (R-devel)
>> 
>> Dan,
>> 
>> On Jan 12, 2015, at 7:50 PM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> R CMD build fails with recent R-devel because it is looking for
>>> texi2dvi in /usr/local/bin, but on this system, MacTex has
>>> installed it in /usr/bin.
>>> 
>> 
>> No, you're looking at the wrong package - texi2dvi comes from texinfo
>> which is now mandatory in version 5.2+ located in /usr/local since
>> OS X comes with an old version. You should install it from
>> 
>> http://r.research.att.com/libs/texinfo-5.2-darwin10.tar.gz
>> 
> 
> Thanks, was there an announcement that I missed about this and if so, where was it? 
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> 
>> Cheers,
>> Simon
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> $ R CMD build IRanges
>>> * checking for file 'IRanges/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
>>> * preparing 'IRanges':
>>> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
>>> * cleaning src
>>> * installing the package to build vignettes
>>> * creating vignettes ... ERROR
>>> [...]
>>> Warning in sub(object$syntax$docexpr, val, chunk[pos[1L]]) :
>>> argument 'replacement' has length > 1 and only the first element
>>> will be used
>>> Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet =
>>> quiet,  :
>>> Running 'texi2dvi' on 'IRangesOverview.tex' failed.
>>> Messages:
>>> sh: /usr/local/bin/texi2dvi: No such file or directory
>>> Calls: <Anonymous> -> texi2pdf -> texi2dvi
>>> Execution halted
>>> 
>>> That's with:
>>> 
>>> R Under development (unstable) (2015-01-11 r67421)
>>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
>>> Running under: OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks)
>>> 
>>> locale:
>>> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>>> 
>>> attached base packages:
>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
>>>  base
>>> 
>>> The same command works without error on:
>>> 
>>> R Under development (unstable) (2014-11-11 r66970)
>>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
>>> 
>>> locale:
>>> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>>> 
>>> attached base packages:
>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
>>>  base
>>> 
>>> Setting
>>> options(texi2dvi='/usr/bin/texi2dvi')
>>> 
>>> in my ~/.Rprofile did not help, I suspect because R CMD build runs
>>> buildVignettes() in a subprocess started with --vanilla. Creating
>>> a symlink from /usr/bin/texi2dvi to /usr/local/bin/texi2dvi gave
>>> me a "too many levels of symbolic links" error. Making it a hard
>>> link works, but seems like a real hack (what if the executable was
>>> not relocatable?).
>>> 
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> Dan
>>> 
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