I'm trying to build from the latest SVN sources on Mac OS X 10.4.3 and I seem to be having a problem making the documentation. When I do make install, i get the following: (sly at gigondas):~/src/R/r-devel/build-f95$ make install make[1]: Nothing to be done for `front-matter'. SVN-REVISION is unchanged make[1]: Nothing to be done for `install'. make[1]: Nothing to be done for `install'. installing doc ... /sw/bin/install: cannot stat `R.1': No such file or directory make[1]: *** [install-man] Error 1 make: *** [install] Error 1 which is due to the fact that R.1 doesn't exist. When I try to make R. 1 by going into docs and doing make svnonly, I get: (sly at gigondas):~/src/R/r-devel/build-f95/doc$ make svnonly make[1]: `R.fe' is up to date. help2man: can't get `--version' info from ../src/scripts/R.fe When I try to run help2man manually I get: (sly at gigondas):~/src/R/r-devel/build-f95/doc$ perl ../../R/tools/ help2man.pl --include=../../R/doc/R.aux --no-info --output=R.1 -- name="a language for data analysis and graphics" ../src/scripts/R.fe help2man: can't get `--version' info from ../src/scripts/R.fe If I try to get the version info from ../src/scripts/R.fe directly, I get: (sly at gigondas):~/src/R/r-devel/build-f95/doc$ ../src/scripts/R.fe -- version Version 2.3.0 Under development (unstable) (2006-01-07 r37011) Copyright (C) 2006 R Development Core Team R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html. So that seems to work. There must be some problem parsing this output. Does have an idea why help2man is failing here? Thanks, Cyrus
We know: this is due to a change in where the version is stored that someone did not check the consequences of. It will be fixed shortly (I am testing a fix right now). Meanwhile, make; make; make install works. On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Cyrus Harmon wrote:> I'm trying to build from the latest SVN sources on Mac OS X 10.4.3 > and I seem to be having a problem making the documentation. > > When I do make install, i get the following: > > (sly at gigondas):~/src/R/r-devel/build-f95$ make install > make[1]: Nothing to be done for `front-matter'. > SVN-REVISION is unchanged > make[1]: Nothing to be done for `install'. > make[1]: Nothing to be done for `install'. > installing doc ... > /sw/bin/install: cannot stat `R.1': No such file or directory > make[1]: *** [install-man] Error 1 > make: *** [install] Error 1 > > which is due to the fact that R.1 doesn't exist. When I try to make R. > 1 by going into docs and doing make svnonly, I get: > > (sly at gigondas):~/src/R/r-devel/build-f95/doc$ make svnonly > make[1]: `R.fe' is up to date. > help2man: can't get `--version' info from ../src/scripts/R.fe > > > When I try to run help2man manually I get: > > (sly at gigondas):~/src/R/r-devel/build-f95/doc$ perl ../../R/tools/ > help2man.pl --include=../../R/doc/R.aux --no-info --output=R.1 -- > name="a language for data analysis and graphics" ../src/scripts/R.fe > help2man: can't get `--version' info from ../src/scripts/R.fe > > > If I try to get the version info from ../src/scripts/R.fe directly, I > get: > > (sly at gigondas):~/src/R/r-devel/build-f95/doc$ ../src/scripts/R.fe -- > version > Version 2.3.0 Under development (unstable) (2006-01-07 r37011) > Copyright (C) 2006 R Development Core Team > > R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. > You are welcome to redistribute it under the terms of the > GNU General Public License. For more information about > these matters, see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html. > > > So that seems to work. There must be some problem parsing this > output. Does have an idea why help2man is failing here? > > Thanks, > > Cyrus > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > >-- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
Cyrus, thanks for the report. On Jan 7, 2006, at 1:41 PM, Cyrus Harmon wrote:> I'm trying to build from the latest SVN sources on Mac OS X 10.4.3 > and I seem to be having a problem making the documentation. > > When I do make install, i get the following: > > (sly@gigondas):~/src/R/r-devel/build-f95$ make install > make[1]: Nothing to be done for `front-matter'. > SVN-REVISION is unchanged > make[1]: Nothing to be done for `install'. > make[1]: Nothing to be done for `install'. > installing doc ... > /sw/bin/install: cannot stat `R.1': No such file or directory > make[1]: *** [install-man] Error 1 > make: *** [install] Error 1Yes, if you run "make; make; make install" it goes away. It's a known problem caused by a recent change in the R start script and the fix should be committed shortly ... Cheers, Simon [[alternative HTML version deleted]]