You have an old snapshot. R-devel r40430 seems fine. You could have looked at the refman.log for informative output (no need to speculate: it was a help file that was provisional at the time). Please don't expect all aspects of R-devel to work on all platforms at all times: It is
R version 2.5.0 Under development (unstable) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello there, > > I have a habit of compiling R-patched and R-devel every few days. > Recently, I noticed the following problem: > > I downloaded both versions with Revision: 40421, Last Changed Date: > 2007-01-09. R-patched compiles with no problem. R-devel compiles fine but > when it starts to make PDF documentation it generates the following (tail > of the "make distribution" output): > > ! pdfTeX warning (dest): name{Rfn.survival} has been referenced but does > not ex > ist, replaced by a fixed one > > <C:/local/MiKTeX/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmti10.pfb>{8r.enc}<C:/local/MiKTeX/fon > ts/type1/urw/times/utmbi8a.pfb><C:/local/MiKTeX/fonts/type1/bluesky/ams/cmbsy7. > pfb><C:/local/MiKTeX/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmbx10.pfb><C:/local/MiKTeX/fonts/t > ype1/bluesky/cm/cmmib10.pfb><C:/local/MiKTeX/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr5.pfb><C > :/local/MiKTeX/fonts/type1/urw/courier/ucrro8a.pfb><C:/local/MiKTeX/fonts/type1 > /bluesky/cm/cmmi5.pfb><C:/local/MiKTeX/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr7.pfb><C:/loca > l/MiKTeX/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmex10.pfb><C:/local/MiKTeX/fonts/type1/bluesky > /cm/cmmi7.pfb><C:/local/MiKTeX/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr10.pfb><C:/local/MiKTe > X/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmsy7.pfb><C:/local/MiKTeX/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmmi > 10.pfb><C:/local/MiKTeX/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmsy10.pfb><C:/local/MiKTeX/font > s/type1/urw/times/utmri8a.pfb><C:/local/MiKTeX/fonts/type1/urw/courier/ucrr8a.p > fb><C:/local/MiKTeX/fonts/type1/urw/courier/ucrb8a.pfb><C:/local/MiKTeX/fonts/t > ype1/urw/times/utmr8a.pfb><C:/local/MiKTeX/fonts/type1/urw/helvetic/uhvr8a.pfb> > <C:/local/MiKTeX/fonts/type1/urw/times/utmr8a.pfb><C:/local/MiKTeX/fonts/type1/ > urw/times/utmb8a.pfb> > Output written on refman.pdf (1447 pages, 6487470 bytes). > Transcript written on refman.log. > make[2]: *** [refman.pdf] Error 1 > make[1]: *** [manuals] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/andyj/R-devel/src/gnuwin32' > make: *** [distribution] Error 2 > > It looks like the first version of refman.pdf gets generated fine and > something happens when it needs to run makeindex. I tried to look at the > Makefile.win in doc/manuals but I cannot see anything obvious there. In > any case, the makefiles are quite elabortae and interlinekd, so I probably > would not know how to fix them. > > I am on Win2000. I compile R using the Cygwin environment, but I have > MinGW installed and its executables are first on the search path. I am > using MiKTeX and it is up-to-date. > > Thanks in advance, > > Andy > > PS. I seem to remember that this happened already a few versions ago. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel