R devel - Jan 2003 - R-devel cross-building

I was cross-building R-devel (1.7.0). The tail of the error message
from running make on a machine with makeinfo (GNU texinfo 3.12) 1.68
is at the end of this email. The same procedure went fine on a machine
with makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.1. 

My first guess is that the version of makeinfo is causing this. However,
this didn't happen with R-1.6.2beta. Please advise.

Jun


## tail of error message
make -f Makefile.docfiles
make[2]: Entering directory `/scratch/rcb/WinR/R-devel/src/gnuwin32'
sed -e s/@RVER@/`cut -d' ' -f1 ../../VERSION | sed -n 1p`/g -e
s/@RWVER@/rw1070/g rw-FAQ.texi | \
  makeinfo --no-headers --number-sections -o rw-FAQ
makeinfo: unrecognized option `--number-sections'
Try `makeinfo --help' for more information.
make[2]: *** [rw-FAQ] Error 4
make[2]: Leaving directory `/scratch/rcb/WinR/R-devel/src/gnuwin32'
make[1]: *** [docfiles] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/scratch/rcb/WinR/R-devel/src/gnuwin32'

Makeinfo >= 4.0 is required to build R's documentation under Linux, and
to
cross-build you have to be able to build R.  The INSTALL file does say you
need makeinfo (and I will add a version requirement).

That applies to 1.6.2beta (and 1.6.1) as well, but in those versions a
current rw-FAQ.html is shipped so you only need makeinfo to re-make the
file.

Texinfo 3.12 is really rather old.

On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Jun Yan wrote:
> I was cross-building R-devel (1.7.0). The tail of the error message
> from running make on a machine with makeinfo (GNU texinfo 3.12) 1.68
> is at the end of this email. The same procedure went fine on a machine
> with makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.1.
>
> My first guess is that the version of makeinfo is causing this. However,
> this didn't happen with R-1.6.2beta. Please advise.
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