R help - Apr 2024 - Building R-4,3,3 fails

On Tue, 9 Apr 2024, Ivan Krylov wrote:
> At this point in the build, R already exists, is quite operable and
> even has all the recommended packages installed. The build system then
> uses this freshly compiled R to run Sweave on the vignettes. Let me
> break the build in a similar manner and see what happens:
Ivan,

The R.SlackBuild script does not install a package unless the build
compeletes with exit code 0. Because building the vignettes failed it exited
with a non-0 exit code and is not installed. This is standard
SlackBuilds.org practice for non-core packages.

I could send you the build script off the mail list, but like all linux
distros each has a reason for building packages as they do.

Thanks,

Rich

? Tue, 9 Apr 2024 10:58:43 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> ?????:
> The R.SlackBuild script does not install a package unless the build
> compeletes with exit code 0.
That's fine, R will run straight from the build directory. It has to do
so in order to compile the vignettes.

But let's skip this step. Here's reshape.tex from R-4.3.3:
https://0x0.st/XidU.tex/reshape.tex

(Feel free to inspect the plain text before running LaTeX on it. TeX
has primitives that may execute arbitrary commands.)

If you run texi2pdf -V reshape.tex on your system, does it break in a
similar manner? What about pdflatex reshape.tex?

-- 
Best regards,
Ivan