R-3.6.2 make check fails

Thanks Tom.

I tried installing texlive-metafont but the reg-packages test still fails.  I understand that I will have this issue as long as we?re trying to build R-3.6.x under EL-7.  Since our own testing of R-3.6.2 has succeeded, we?ll go with it unless we find something that does not work for us.

Thanks again.
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Wes

From: Tom Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2020 12:10 PM
To: R P Herrold <herrold at owlriver.com>
Cc: Barris, Wes <Wes.Barris at cobb-vantress.com>; r-sig-fedora at r-project.org
Subject: [EXTERNAL] - Re: [R-sig-Fedora] R-3.6.2 make check fails

You're definitely missing bits of texlive. Lots of "missing file: mf" in your debug logs.

I think you need to start with installing texlive-metafont.

Alternately, there are pre-built R 3.6.2 packages for EL-7 here:
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1421894<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__koji.fedoraproject.org_koji_buildinfo-3FbuildID-3D1421894&d=DwMFaQ&c=l0Se2EoYzVDuQxIIfySraQ&r=ikT9mQBX0oceFUNOZ9sWg7xwG2CuIC6bHyRUELsg5N4&m=uml0Cpnd8DuohnwcMtyGNIioV8ZIKyqJfop23wpA7G0&s=nNN18iUVUckS6P6DZ4jV7NjeGeF7saUiyoum9zMVXQk&e=>

I cannot push them as official updates to EPEL because of the catch-22 created by R's dependency on newer C++ support than the EL-7 gcc has. My packages use the devtoolset compiler to work around this need, but then R assumes it can build modules from CRAN with those flags (and that level of C++ support). The only way to ensure that is to have a Requires: devtoolset-8-toolchain , but that is not permitted in EPEL. Since I am not interested in the bugs that would be filed by EL-7 users who have confusing CRAN build failures (which is what I would get if I took out the Requires), I've opted to simply do the builds in Koji and not push them as updates for EL-7. EL-8 does not have this issue.

Good luck,
Tom

I have been able to build previous versions of R up to and including 3.5.3 successfully.  Starting with 3.6.0
the "make check" step fails with errors relating to "pdflatex" being missing.  So, I installed texlive-latex
(and the 100 other rpm dependencies) then tried rebuilding R.  "make check" continues to fail.

Thinking that you may have a missing Build
Requirement dependency here ...

[herrold at localhost ~]$ which pdflatex
/usr/bin/pdflatex

[herrold at localhost ~]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/pdflatex
texlive-latex-bin-bin-svn14050.0-43.20130427_r30134.el7.noarch

[herrold at localhost ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS Linux release 7.7.1908 (Core)

[herrold at localhost ~]$ rpm -qi
texlive-latex-bin-bin-svn14050.0-43.20130427_r30134.el7.noarch
Name        : texlive-latex-bin-bin
Epoch       : 2
Version     : svn14050.0
Release     : 43.20130427_r30134.el7
Architecture: noarch
Install Date: Wed Mar  6 14:59:57 2019
Group       : Applications/Publishing
Size        : 0
License     : Artistic 2.0 and GPLv2 and GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+
and LPPL and MIT and Public Domain and UCD and Utopia
Signature   : RSA/SHA256, Mon Nov 12 10:22:43 2018, Key ID
24c6a8a7f4a80eb5
Source RPM  : texlive-2012-43.20130427_r30134.el7.src.rpm
Build Date  : Tue Oct 30 17:08:55 2018
Build Host  : x86-01.bsys.centos.org<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__x86-2D01.bsys.centos.org&d=DwMFaQ&c=l0Se2EoYzVDuQxIIfySraQ&r=ikT9mQBX0oceFUNOZ9sWg7xwG2CuIC6bHyRUELsg5N4&m=uml0Cpnd8DuohnwcMtyGNIioV8ZIKyqJfop23wpA7G0&s=04-qZjKYvfS0fIDIp_xfhV9IaJanWTgZQjKfDmtUjbw&e=>
Relocations : (not relocatable)
Packager    : CentOS BuildSystem <http://bugs.centos.org<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__bugs.centos.org&d=DwMFaQ&c=l0Se2EoYzVDuQxIIfySraQ&r=ikT9mQBX0oceFUNOZ9sWg7xwG2CuIC6bHyRUELsg5N4&m=uml0Cpnd8DuohnwcMtyGNIioV8ZIKyqJfop23wpA7G0&s=yad7nViDanvG4r0EkZdYDiacJdmaL9lNr2_K0SC_NkU&e=>>
Vendor      : CentOS
URL         : http://tug.org/texlive/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__tug.org_texlive_&d=DwMFaQ&c=l0Se2EoYzVDuQxIIfySraQ&r=ikT9mQBX0oceFUNOZ9sWg7xwG2CuIC6bHyRUELsg5N4&m=uml0Cpnd8DuohnwcMtyGNIioV8ZIKyqJfop23wpA7G0&s=3-ZsxkI3ZUWh9rcQ0X8bwXL4Q1fJ4wTdYBUR6coS7NE&e=>
Summary     : Binaries for latex-bin
Description : Binaries for latex-bin
[herrold at localhost ~]$

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