>>>>> "Kurt" == Kurt Gerber <kgerber at gmx.ch>
writes:
Kurt> Im running R 0.99 on SuSE 6.3 with Linux 2.2.14 and Xemacs 21.1.
Kurt> When I try to compile ESS
Note that ESS is not part of R
and the appropriate mailing list for ESS is
ESS-help @stat.math.ethz.ch {to which this is CC'ed}.
Kurt> the processes stops with an error message:
You forgot to tell us the version of ESS,
but below I see that it's 5.1.9 which is somewhat outdated.
{as well as your version of R: 1.0.0 is current -->
http://www.r-project.org/}
The latest version of ESS 5.1.13 does *include* the ess.info files
--> http://ess.stat.wisc.edu/ or any CRAN mirror
Kurt> Making info file `ess.info' from `ess.texi'.
Kurt> ./newfeat.texi:3: itemize requires an argument: the formatter for
@item.
Kurt> ./newfeat.texi:9: itemize requires an argument: the formatter for
@item.
Kurt> makeinfo: Removing output file
`/usr/src/R/ess/ess-5.1.9/doc/ess.info' due to errors; use --force to
preserve.
Kurt> make[1]: *** [ess.info] Error 2
Kurt> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/R/ess/ess-5.1.9/doc'
Kurt> bash-2.03#
Kurt> Does anybody know, what that means? Is there something missing on
Kurt> my system, something to do with texinfo?
I may mean that your makeinfo is somewhat outdated.
The latest GNU texinfo 4.0 has a makeinfo which is required also for making
R's info manuals (in R' doc/manual/).
Get texinfo/texinfo-4.0.tar.gz from any GNU mirror.
Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
http://stat.ethz.ch/~maechler/
Seminar fuer Statistik, ETH-Zentrum LEO D10 Leonhardstr. 27
ETH (Federal Inst. Technology) 8092 Zurich SWITZERLAND
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