R devel - Feb 2016 - Avoid texinfo 6.1

There are problems with the texi2dvi in the recently released texinfo 
6.1.  (The bug has been reported.)  Avoid 6.1 if you can, but if not 
setting the environment variable

R_TEXI2DVICMD=emulation

will enable R to build, including NEWS.pdf and all the vignettes.

We are working on a more complete workaround for R-devel and 3.2.4.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford

On 22 February 2016 at 09:57, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
| There are problems with the texi2dvi in the recently released texinfo 
| 6.1.  (The bug has been reported.)  Avoid 6.1 if you can, but if not 
| setting the environment variable
| 
| R_TEXI2DVICMD=emulation
| 
| will enable R to build, including NEWS.pdf and all the vignettes.
| 
| We are working on a more complete workaround for R-devel and 3.2.4.

Confirming that there are issues.  I had to rebuild 3.2.3 for Debian (as
the default JDK switched from OpenJDK 7 to 8) and had it just fail on
NEWS.pdf for no clear reason. I was a bit short on time last week because of
travel; I should have reported back here.

Dirk

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