Re: [R] Building R-4,3,3 fails

2024-04-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 9 Apr 2024, Ivan Krylov wrote: That's fine, R will run straight from the build directory. It has to do so in order to compile the vignettes. Ivan, That's good to know. Thanks. But let's skip this step. Here's reshape.tex from R-4.3.3: https://0x0.st/XidU.tex/reshape.tex (Feel free

Re: [R] Building R-4,3,3 fails

2024-04-09 Thread Rich Shepard
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

Re: [R] Building R-4,3,3 fails

2024-04-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 8 Apr 2024, Ivan Krylov wrote: A Web search suggests that texi2dvi may output this message by mistake when the TeX installation is subject to a different problem: https://web.archive.org/web/20191006123002/https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-texinfo/2016-10/msg00036.html Ivan, That thread is

Re: [R] Building R-4,3,3 fails

2024-04-08 Thread Rich Shepard
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,