On Mon, 8 Apr 2024, Ivan Krylov wrote:
Questions about building R do get asked here and R-devel. Since you're compiling a released version of R and we don't have an R-SIG-Slackware mailing list, R-help sounds like the right place.
Ivan, Okay:
What are the last lines of the build log, containing the error message? If it's a LaTeX error, it may be that you need some extra TeX Live packages, there is a list in R-admin: https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Making-the-manuals
* DONE (mgcv) make[2]: Leaving directory '/tmp/SBo/R-4.3.3/src/library/Recommended' make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/SBo/R-4.3.3/src/library/Recommended' make[1]: Entering directory '/tmp/SBo/R-4.3.3/src/library' building/updating vignettes for package 'grid' ... building/updating vignettes for package 'parallel' ... building/updating vignettes for package 'utils' ... building/updating vignettes for package 'stats' ... processing 'reshape.Rnw' Error: compiling TeX file 'reshape.tex' failed with message: Running 'texi2dvi' on 'reshape.tex' failed. Messages: /usr/bin/texi2dvi: TeX neither supports -recorder nor outputs \openout lines in its log file Execution halted make[1]: *** [Makefile:103: vignettes] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/SBo/R-4.3.3/src/library' make: *** [Makefile:81: vignettes] Error 2 # (running time: 12m3.057s) I don't know why /usr/bin/texi2dvi doesn't support -recorder nor the other error. TeXLive2023 had no issues building R-4.1.1. Thanks, Rich ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
