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...elated problem. If someone with a better understanding of these things can point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Mark Perkins perkinsm at bway.net --------------------------- Output from make: TEXINPUTS=".:$TEXINPUTS" ../../bin/texi2dvi --texinfo="@set UseExternalXrefs" R-FAQ.texi This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5) (/tmp/t2d10777/xtr/R-FAQ.texi (./texinfo.tex Loading texinfo [version 2002-03-26.08]: Basics, pdf, fonts, page headings, tables, conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc, environments, defuns, macros, cross references, (/sw/share/texmf/tex...

...fman.pdf' trichodon:/export/trichodon2/R/R-1.0.1/doc/manual <125>-> make info false -D UseExternalXrefs -I. R-FAQ.texi *** Error code 255 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `R-FAQ.info' -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: brian.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 411 bytes Desc: Card for Brian O'Gorman Url : https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-...

G'day all, after issuing `svn up' on my machine this morning, I noticed that `make info' choked on R-exts.texi. Below is a patch that seems to solve the problem. BTW, while `make info' runs now, I still get the following warning: /usr/bin/makeinfo --enable-encoding -D UseExternalXrefs -I/opt/src/R-devel-src/doc/manual /opt/src/R-devel-src/doc/manual/R-exts.texi /opt/src/R-devel-src/doc/manual/R-exts.texi:1219: warning: @strong{Note...} produces a spurious cross-reference in Info; reword to avoid that. No idea how to fix that, my texinfo knowledge is not good enough. :) Actual...

...ding R-devel_2015-10-08 on Windows7 64bit using the Rtools 3.3 toolchain (4.9.3 branch), had it crash during `make manuals` with: Output written on fullrefman.pdf (3468 pages, 9511515 bytes). Transcript written on fullrefman.log. creating doc/manual/version.texi texi2dvi --pdf --texinfo="@set UseExternalXrefs " R-FAQ.texi texi2dvi: not found make[1]: *** [R-FAQ.pdf] Error 127 make: *** [manuals] Error 2 Outside of trying to dig up an old (and now obsolete) version of the executable, what can be, or should be, done to build the manuals, or have we lost that ability? Thank you, Avi [1] http://so...

...on during the r-base 2.7.1 rc build (see [1]). It seems that there is an error during the convertion of R-FAQ.texi to pdf. The following excerpt, taken from [2], shows the problem: /bin/sh: line 0: test: too many arguments TEXINPUTS=".:$TEXINPUTS" /usr/bin/texi2dvi --texinfo="@set UseExternalXrefs " --pdf R-FAQ.texi /usr/bin/texi2dvi: Running pdfetex --file-line-error '/build/buildd/r-base-2.7.1~20080621/doc/manual/R-FAQ.t2d/pdf/xtr/R-FAQ.texi' ... This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) file:line:error style messages enabled. %&-line parsing enabled. ente...

...ompile everything. The compilation itself goes smoothly. Then the PDF version of the reference manual is created. Then I see this: ... Output written on refman.pdf (1563 pages, 7869936 bytes). Transcript written on refman.log. creating doc/manual/version.texi texi2dvi --pdf --texinfo="@set UseExternalXrefs " R-FAQ.texi This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.4 (MiKTeX 2.6) entering extended mode ! I can't find file `\tmp\t2d6036\xtr\R-FAQ.texi'. <*> /tmp/t2d6036/xtr/R-FAQ.texi Please type another input file name: Now the file /tmp/t2d6036/xtr/R-FAQ.texi exists at this point is no...

...what the posting guide says about not abusing the word 'crash'. > during `make manuals` with: > > Output written on fullrefman.pdf (3468 pages, 9511515 bytes). > Transcript written on fullrefman.log. > creating doc/manual/version.texi > texi2dvi --pdf --texinfo="@set UseExternalXrefs " R-FAQ.texi > texi2dvi: not found > make[1]: *** [R-FAQ.pdf] Error 127 > make: *** [manuals] Error 2 > > Outside of trying to dig up an old (and now obsolete) version of the > executable, what can be, or should be, done to build the manuals, or > have we lost that abilit...