problem building dvi and pdf documentation on Darwin 10.2.6

--On Saturday, May 17, 2003 23:16 +0200 Peter Dalgaard BSA

"Mark E. Perkins" <perkinsm at bway.net> writes:

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Transcript written on R-FAQ.log.
../../bin/texi2dvi: tex exited with bad status, quitting.
../../bin/texi2dvi: see R-FAQ.log for errors.

It might be informative to take that hint since the log files are
somewhat more verbose about exactly what is going on. 

It's not your texinfo version -- mine is exactly the same. However,
there are probably very few people running teTeX 2.x so there could be
an obscure installation problem with that.

It looks like your troubles begin where TeX is supposed to be
processing R-FAQ.aux. It can happen that TeX gets wedged when there's a
problem with that so you could try deleting it.

I should have mentioned that I had looked at the log file, but that it
really hadn't helped me any in terms of understanding the problem....

I *have* discovered that there is a problem with the index files. Running,
for example, 'make R-FAQ.dvi' in ..../manuals fails as noted previously.
The Makefile basically runs texi2dvi (with one argument), so if I try to
accomplish the same thing by hand and run

        tex R-FAQ.texi && texindex R-FAQ.?? && tex R-FAQ.texi ...etc

I get R-FAQ.dvi with table of contents (but note that R-FAQ does not build
an index). OTOH, if I do the same thing for R-admin (or any of the others),
texindex complains:

        texindex: R-admin.cp: not a texinfo index file
        Segmentation fault

If I make R-admin.cp a zero-byte file, I see the same result, but complaint
is about R-admin.vr. So it appears (to my TeX-deficient brain) as if tex
may be doing something funny with to the intermediate index files. On the
off chance that teTeX 2.0.2 is the problem, I built TeX from the web2c
distribution. I get the same result, but both are, in fact the same version
of TeX, i.e., both report:

-> cd proper-directory && ./tex --version
TeX (Web2C 7.4.5) 3.14159
kpathsea version 3.4.5
etc

texindex from fink and texindex from the Darwin installation are both

-> cd proper-directory && ./texindex --version
texindex (GNU texinfo) 4.2
etc

Lastly, here is R-admin.cp in its entirety (which looks like TeX stuff to
my untrained eye, and R-admin.vr is similar):

\entry{Obtaining R}{1}{Obtaining R}
\entry{Sources for R}{1}{Sources for R}
\entry{Installing under Unix}{2}{Installing under Unix}
\entry{Linux}{2}{Linux}
\entry{MacOS X}{2}{MacOS X}
\entry{Help pages}{3}{Help pages}
\entry{Manuals}{3}{Manuals}
\entry{Installation}{3}{Installation}
\entry{Manuals, installing}{4}{Manuals, installing}
\entry{Installing under Windows}{5}{Installing under Windows}
\entry{Installing under MacOS}{6}{Installing under MacOS}
\entry{MacOS X}{6}{MacOS X}
\entry{Packages}{7}{Packages}
\entry{Packages, installing}{7}{Packages, installing}
\entry{Packages, updating}{8}{Packages, updating}
\entry{Packages, removing}{8}{Packages, removing}
\entry{BLAS library}{10}{BLAS library}
\entry{LAPACK library}{10}{LAPACK library}
\entry{FORTRAN}{13}{FORTRAN}
\entry{BLAS library}{14}{BLAS library}
\entry{MacOS X}{16}{MacOS X}
\entry{BLAS library}{16}{BLAS library}
\entry{LAPACK library}{16}{LAPACK library}
\entry{Solaris}{16}{Solaris}
\entry{BLAS library}{17}{BLAS library}
\entry{LAPACK library}{17}{LAPACK library}
\entry{HP-UX}{17}{HP-UX}
\entry{IRIS}{18}{IRIS}
\entry{AIX}{19}{AIX}


Once again, any pointers will be appreciated. I can't find older versions
of teTeX and web2c for Darwin to see if I can pinpoint the problem to my
"new" version of TeX.

Thanks,
Mark Perkins
perkinsm at bway.net