[R-sig-Fedora] R-3.6.2 make check fails

R P Herrold
2020-02-17T16:40:45Z

On Fri, 14 Feb 2020, Barris, Wes wrote:

> I have been able to build previous versions of R up to and including 3.5.3
successfully.  Starting with 3.6.0
> the "make check" step fails with errors relating to
"pdflatex" being missing.  So, I installed texlive-latex
> (and the 100 other rpm dependencies) then tried rebuilding R.  "make
check" continues to fail.

Thinking that you may have a missing Build
Requirement dependency here ...

[herrold at localhost ~]$ which pdflatex
/usr/bin/pdflatex

[herrold at localhost ~]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/pdflatex
texlive-latex-bin-bin-svn14050.0-43.20130427_r30134.el7.noarch

[herrold at localhost ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS Linux release 7.7.1908 (Core)

[herrold at localhost ~]$ rpm -qi
texlive-latex-bin-bin-svn14050.0-43.20130427_r30134.el7.noarch
Name        : texlive-latex-bin-bin
Epoch       : 2
Version     : svn14050.0
Release     : 43.20130427_r30134.el7
Architecture: noarch
Install Date: Wed Mar  6 14:59:57 2019
Group       : Applications/Publishing
Size        : 0
License     : Artistic 2.0 and GPLv2 and GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+
and LPPL and MIT and Public Domain and UCD and Utopia
Signature   : RSA/SHA256, Mon Nov 12 10:22:43 2018, Key ID
24c6a8a7f4a80eb5
Source RPM  : texlive-2012-43.20130427_r30134.el7.src.rpm
Build Date  : Tue Oct 30 17:08:55 2018
Build Host  : x86-01.bsys.centos.org
Relocations : (not relocatable)
Packager    : CentOS BuildSystem <http://bugs.centos.org>
Vendor      : CentOS
URL         : http://tug.org/texlive/
Summary     : Binaries for latex-bin
Description : Binaries for latex-bin
[herrold at localhost ~]$