Build R form source - manuals

On 09/09/2015 07:40, arnaud gaboury wrote:
I built R form source succesfully on my Fedora 22 box. No errors.

Which version of R?
3-2-1

I can read there is an issue with some manuals at build time when
running makeinfo, especially these two:
doc/manual/R-exts.texi
cp doc/manual/R-intro.texi
Some distro have hacks about makeinfo 5 in their build script.

I wonder if some manuals are broken but couldn't see it when running make.

May someone tells me more about this issue and what can I do to make
sure these manuals are correctly built.

You are the one claiming there is an issue, so the onus is on you to tell
us.
please find below two build scripts for R 3-2-1

* Archlinux:
..........
  # fix for texinfo 5.X
  sed -i 's|test ${makeinfo_version_min} -lt 7|test
${makeinfo_version_min} -lt 0|' configure

* FEDORA 22
.....................
%if 0%{?fedora} >= 19
# What a hack.
# Current texinfo doesn't like @eqn. Use @math instead where stuff breaks.
cp doc/manual/R-exts.texi doc/manual/R-exts.texi.spot
cp doc/manual/R-intro.texi doc/manual/R-intro.texi.spot
sed -i 's|@eqn|@math|g' doc/manual/R-exts.texi
sed -i 's|@eqn|@math|g' doc/manual/R-intro.texi
%endif
%if %{texi2any}
    make MAKEINFO=texi2any info
%else
    make MAKEINFO=makeinfo info
%endif

# Convert to UTF-8
for i in doc/manual/R-intro.info doc/manual/R-FAQ.info doc/FAQ
doc/manual/R-admin.info doc/manual/R-exts.info-1; do
  iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 -o $i{.utf8,}
  mv $i{.utf8,}
done

%install
make DESTDIR=${RPM_BUILD_ROOT} install install-info
# And now, undo the hack. :P
%if 0%{?fedora} >= 19
mv doc/manual/R-exts.texi.spot doc/manual/R-exts.texi
mv doc/manual/R-intro.texi.spot doc/manual/R-intro.texi
%endif
make DESTDIR=${RPM_BUILD_ROOT} install-pdf
........................

As seen above, these two scripts contain hacks.

Again, building on my Linux R from CRAN source is OK. My worry is
being left with broken manuals, thus the idea to verify if everything
is correctly built.

Thank you
Recent versions of R work with makeinfo 5.1/2 (5.0 is broken) or report that
makeinfo is not available.  And versions released after 6.0 work with 6.0
....

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford
1 South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TG, UK

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