Avoid texinfo 6.1

Mon, Feb 22, 2016 1:57 AM #

There are problems with the texi2dvi in the recently released texinfo 
6.1.  (The bug has been reported.)  Avoid 6.1 if you can, but if not 
setting the environment variable

R_TEXI2DVICMD=emulation

will enable R to build, including NEWS.pdf and all the vignettes.

We are working on a more complete workaround for R-devel and 3.2.4.

Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Mon, Feb 22, 2016 4:40 AM #

On 22 February 2016 at 09:57, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

| There are problems with the texi2dvi in the recently released texinfo 
| 6.1.  (The bug has been reported.)  Avoid 6.1 if you can, but if not 
| setting the environment variable
| 
| R_TEXI2DVICMD=emulation
| 
| will enable R to build, including NEWS.pdf and all the vignettes.
| 
| We are working on a more complete workaround for R-devel and 3.2.4.

Confirming that there are issues.  I had to rebuild 3.2.3 for Debian (as
the default JDK switched from OpenJDK 7 to 8) and had it just fail on
NEWS.pdf for no clear reason. I was a bit short on time last week because of
travel; I should have reported back here.

Dirk

http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org