R-3.6.2 make check fails

I am trying to build the latest version of R (3.6.2) on a CentOS system running 7.7.1908.

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.

I have a feeling that this is a "soft" error because the resulting R executable appears to be working properly.
Would someone please take a look at this reg-packages.Rout.fail file and let me know whether I can just ignore
the tests or if there is an easy fix for this?

Thanks.  Here is the reg-packages.Rout.fail file:


R version 3.6.2 (2019-12-12) -- "Dark and Stormy Night"
Copyright (C) 2019 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.

R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type 'contributors()' for more information and
'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.

Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
Type 'q()' to quit R.

.R_LIBS <- function(libp = .libPaths()) { # (>> in utils?)

+     libp <- libp[! libp %in% .Library]
+     if(length(libp))
+         paste(libp, collapse = .Platform$path.sep)
+     else "" # character(0) is invalid for Sys.setenv()
+ }

Sys.setenv(R_LIBS = .R_LIBS() # for build.pkg() & install.packages()

+          , R_BUILD_ENVIRON = "nothing" # avoid ~/.R/build.environ which might set R_LIBS
+          , R_ENVIRON = "none"
+          , R_PROFILE = "none"
+            )

## PR 1271  detach("package:base") crashes R.
tools::assertError(detach("package:base"))


## invalid 'lib.loc'
stopifnot(length(installed.packages("mgcv")) == 0)
## gave a low-level error message


## package.skeleton() with metadata-only code
## work in current (= ./tests/ directory):
tmp <- tempfile()
writeLines(c('setClass("foo", contains="numeric")',

+              'setMethod("show", "foo",',
+              '          function(object) cat("I am a \\"foo\\"\\n"))'),
+            tmp)

if(file.exists("myTst")) unlink("myTst", recursive=TRUE)
package.skeleton("myTst", code_files = tmp)# with a file name warning

Creating directories ...
Creating DESCRIPTION ...
Creating NAMESPACE ...
Creating Read-and-delete-me ...
Copying code files ...
Making help files ...
Done.
Further steps are described in './myTst/Read-and-delete-me'.
Warning message:
In package.skeleton("myTst", code_files = tmp) :
  Invalid file name(s) for R code in ./myTst/R:
  'file494f4e9385cd'
 are now renamed to 'z<name>.R'

file.copy(tmp, (tm2 <- paste(tmp,".R", sep="")))

[1] TRUE

unlink("myTst", recursive=TRUE)
op <- options(warn=2) # *NO* "invalid file name" warning {failed in 2.7.[01]}:
package.skeleton("myTst", code_files = tm2)

Creating directories ...
Creating DESCRIPTION ...
Creating NAMESPACE ...
Creating Read-and-delete-me ...
Copying code files ...
Making help files ...
Done.
Further steps are described in './myTst/Read-and-delete-me'.

options(op)
##_2_ only a class, no generics/methods:
writeLines(c('setClass("DocLink",',

+              'representation(name="character",',
+              '               desc="character"))'), tmp)

if(file.exists("myTst2")) unlink("myTst2", recursive=TRUE)
package.skeleton("myTst2", code_files = tmp)

Creating directories ...
Creating DESCRIPTION ...
Creating NAMESPACE ...
Creating Read-and-delete-me ...
Copying code files ...
Making help files ...
Done.
Further steps are described in './myTst2/Read-and-delete-me'.
Warning message:
In package.skeleton("myTst2", code_files = tmp) :
  Invalid file name(s) for R code in ./myTst2/R:
  'file494f4e9385cd'
 are now renamed to 'z<name>.R'

##- end_2_ # failed in R 2.11.0
stopifnot(1 == grep("setClass",

+ 	  readLines(list.files("myTst/R", full.names=TRUE))),
+ 	  c("foo-class.Rd","show-methods.Rd") %in% list.files("myTst/man"))

## failed for several reasons in R < 2.7.0
##
## Part 2: -- build, install, load and "inspect" the package:
build.pkg <- function(dir) {

+     stopifnot(dir.exists(dir), file.exists(DESC <- file.path(dir, "DESCRIPTION")))
+     pkgName <- sub("^[A-Za-z]+: ", "", grep("^Package: ", readLines(DESC), value=TRUE))
+     patt <- paste(pkgName, ".*tar\\.gz$", sep="_")
+     unlink(dir('.', pattern = patt))
+     Rcmd <- paste(shQuote(file.path(R.home("bin"), "R")), "CMD")
+     r <- system(paste(Rcmd, "build --keep-empty-dirs", shQuote(dir)),
+                 intern = TRUE)
+     ## return name of tar file built
+     structure(dir('.', pattern = patt), log3 = r)
+ }

build.pkg("myTst")

[1] "myTst_1.0.tar.gz"
attr(,"log3")
[1] "* checking for file 'myTst/DESCRIPTION' ... OK"                           
[2] "* preparing 'myTst':"                                                     
[3] "* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK"                           
[4] "* installing the package to process help pages"                           
[5] "* saving partial Rd database"                                             
[6] "* checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts"
[7] "* checking for empty or unneeded directories"                             
[8] "* building 'myTst_1.0.tar.gz'"

## clean up any previous attempt (which might have left a 00LOCK)
unlink("myLib", recursive = TRUE)
dir.create("myLib")
install.packages("myTst", lib = "myLib", repos=NULL, type = "source") # with warnings

* installing *source* package 'myTst' ...
** using staged installation
** R
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
** help
Warning: /usr/local/src/stats/R-3.6.2/CentOS/tests/myTst/man/myTst-package.Rd:27: All text must be in a section
Warning: /usr/local/src/stats/R-3.6.2/CentOS/tests/myTst/man/myTst-package.Rd:28: All text must be in a section
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
** testing if installed package can be loaded from final location
** testing if installed package keeps a record of temporary installation path
* DONE (myTst)

print(installed.packages(lib.loc= "myLib", priority= "NA"))## (PR#13332)

Package LibPath Version Priority Depends   Imports LinkingTo Suggests
myTst "myTst" "myLib" "1.0"   NA       "methods" NA      NA        NA      
      Enhances License                     License_is_FOSS
myTst NA       "What license is it under?" NA             
      License_restricts_use OS_type MD5sum NeedsCompilation Built  
myTst NA                    NA      NA     NA               "3.6.2"

stopifnot(require("myTst",lib = "myLib"))

Loading required package: myTst

sm <- findMethods(show, where= as.environment("package:myTst"))
stopifnot(names(sm at names) == "foo")
unlink("myTst_*")

## getPackageName()  for "package:foo":
require('methods')
library(tools)
oo <- options(warn=2)
detach("package:tools", unload=TRUE)
options(oo)
## gave warning (-> Error) about creating package name


## More building & installing packages
## NB: tests were added here for 2.11.0.
## NB^2: do not do this in the R sources (but in a build != src directory!)
## and this testdir is not installed.
if(interactive() && Sys.getenv("USER") == "maechler")

+     Sys.setenv(SRCDIR = normalizePath("~/R/D/r-devel/R/tests"))

(pkgSrcPath <- file.path(Sys.getenv("SRCDIR"), "Pkgs"))# e.g., -> "../../R/tests/Pkgs"

[1] "../../tests/Pkgs"

if(!file_test("-d", pkgSrcPath) && !interactive()) {

+     unlink("myTst", recursive=TRUE)
+     print(proc.time())
+     q("no")
+ }

## else w/o clause:

do.cleanup <- !nzchar(Sys.getenv("R_TESTS_NO_CLEAN"))
isWIN <- .Platform$OS.type == "windows"
has.symlink <- !isWIN
## Installing "on to" a package existing as symlink in the lib.loc
## -- used to fail with misleading error message (#PR 16725):

if(has.symlink && !unlink("myLib_2", recursive=TRUE) && dir.create("myLib_2") &&

+    file.rename("myLib/myTst", "myLib_2/myTst") &&
+    file.symlink("../myLib_2/myTst", "myLib/myTst"))
+     install.packages("myTst", lib = "myLib", repos=NULL, type = "source")
* installing *source* package 'myTst' ...
** using staged installation
** R
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
** help
Warning: /usr/local/src/stats/R-3.6.2/CentOS/tests/myTst/man/myTst-package.Rd:27: All text must be in a section
Warning: /usr/local/src/stats/R-3.6.2/CentOS/tests/myTst/man/myTst-package.Rd:28: All text must be in a section
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
** testing if installed package can be loaded from final location
** testing if installed package keeps a record of temporary installation path
* DONE (myTst)

## In R <= 3.3.2 gave error with *misleading* error message:
## ERROR: 'myTst' is not a legal package name

if(isWIN) { # (has no symlinks anyway)

+     file.copy(pkgSrcPath, tempdir(), recursive = TRUE)
+ } else { # above file.copy() not useful as it replaces symlink by copy
+     system(paste('cp -R', shQuote(pkgSrcPath), shQuote(tempdir())))
+ }

pkgPath <- file.path(tempdir(), "Pkgs")
if(!dir.exists(pkgPath))  {

+     message("No valid 'pkgPath' (from 'pkgSrcPath') - exit this test")
+     if(!interactive()) q("no")
+ }

## pkgB tests an empty R directory
dir.create(file.path(pkgPath, "pkgB", "R"), recursive = TRUE,

+ 	   showWarnings = FALSE)

p.lis <- c(if("Matrix" %in% row.names(installed.packages(.Library)))

+                c("pkgA", "pkgB", "pkgC"),
+            "exNSS4", "exSexpr")

InstOpts <- list("exSexpr" = "--html")
pkgApath <- file.path(pkgPath, "pkgA")
if("pkgA" %in% p.lis && !dir.exists(d <- pkgApath)) {

+     cat("symlink 'pkgA' does not exist as directory ",d,"; copying it\n", sep='')
+     file.copy(file.path(pkgPath, "xDir", "pkg"), to = d, recursive=TRUE)
+     ## if even the copy failed (NB: pkgB, pkgC depend on pkgA)
+     if(!dir.exists(d)) p.lis <- p.lis[!(p.lis %in% c("pkgA", "pkgB", "pkgC"))]
+ }

dir2pkg <- function(dir) ifelse(dir == "pkgC", "PkgC", dir)
if(is.na(match("myLib", .lP <- .libPaths()))) {

+     .libPaths(c("myLib", .lP)) # PkgC needs pkgA from there
+     .lP <- .libPaths()
+ }

Sys.setenv(R_LIBS = .R_LIBS(.lP)) # for build.pkg() & install.packages()
for(p in p.lis) {

+     p. <- dir2pkg(p) # 'p' is sub directory name;  'p.' is package name
+     cat("building package", p., "...\n")
+     r <- build.pkg(file.path(pkgPath, p))
+     if(!length(r)) # so some sort of failure, show log
+         cat(attr(r, "log3"), sep = "\n")
+     if(!isTRUE(file.exists(r)))
+         stop("R CMD build failed (no tarball) for package ", p)
+     ## otherwise install the tar file:
+     cat("installing package", p., "using built file", r, "...\n")
+     ## "FIXME": want to catch warnings in the "console output" of this:
+     install.packages(r, lib = "myLib", repos=NULL, type = "source",
+                      INSTALL_opts = InstOpts[[p.]])
+     stopifnot(require(p., lib = "myLib", character.only=TRUE))
+     detach(pos = match(p., sub("^package:","", search())))
+ }
building package pkgA ...

installing package pkgA using built file pkgA_1.2.tar.gz ...
* installing *source* package 'pkgA' ...
** using staged installation
** R
** data
*** moving datasets to lazyload DB
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
** testing if installed package can be loaded from final location
** testing if installed package keeps a record of temporary installation path
* DONE (pkgA)
Loading required package: pkgA

Attaching package: 'pkgA'

The following object is masked from 'package:base':

    search

building package pkgB ...

installing package pkgB using built file pkgB_1.0.tar.gz ...
* installing *source* package 'pkgB' ...
** using staged installation
** help
No man pages found in package  'pkgB' 
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
** testing if installed package can be loaded from final location
** testing if installed package keeps a record of temporary installation path
* DONE (pkgB)
Loading required package: pkgB
building package PkgC ...

installing package PkgC using built file PkgC_1.0-0.tar.gz ...
* installing *source* package 'PkgC' ...
** using staged installation
** R
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading

From .checkSubclasses(): subclass "classApp" of class "classA" is not local and is not updated for new inheritance information currently; 

[where=<environment: 0x4a3f9d8>, where2=<environment: namespace:PkgC>]
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
** testing if installed package can be loaded from final location
** testing if installed package keeps a record of temporary installation path
* DONE (PkgC)
Loading required package: PkgC
building package exNSS4 ...

installing package exNSS4 using built file exNSS4_1.1.tar.gz ...
* installing *source* package 'exNSS4' ...
** using staged installation
** R
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
** help
No man pages found in package  'exNSS4' 
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
** testing if installed package can be loaded from final location
** testing if installed package keeps a record of temporary installation path
* DONE (exNSS4)
Loading required package: exNSS4
building package exSexpr ...
Converting Rd files to LaTeX 

kpathsea: Running mktextfm cmr10
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map source abbreviation  for cmr10.
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update ?
mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input cmr10
/bin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found
grep: cmr10.log: No such file or directory
mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input cmr10' failed to make cmr10.tfm.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.

kpathsea: Running mktextfm ecrm1000
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map source abbreviation  for ecrm1000.
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update ?
mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm1000
/bin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found
grep: ecrm1000.log: No such file or directory
mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm1000' failed to make ecrm1000.tfm.
Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet,  : 
  unable to run 'pdflatex' on 'Rd2.tex'

kpathsea: Running mktextfm cmr10
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map source abbreviation  for cmr10.
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update ?
mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input cmr10
/bin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found
grep: cmr10.log: No such file or directory
mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input cmr10' failed to make cmr10.tfm.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.

kpathsea: Running mktextfm ecrm1000
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map source abbreviation  for ecrm1000.
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update ?
mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm1000
/bin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found
grep: ecrm1000.log: No such file or directory
mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm1000' failed to make ecrm1000.tfm.
Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet,  : 
  unable to run 'pdflatex' on 'Rd2.tex'
Error in running tools::texi2pdf()
* checking for file '/tmp/RtmpZs7fPX/Pkgs/exSexpr/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* preparing 'exSexpr':
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
* installing the package to process help pages
* saving partial Rd database
* building the PDF package manual
Hmm ... looks like a package
Creating pdf output from LaTeX ...
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (TeX Live 2013)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./Rd2.tex
LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
Babel <v3.8m> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, lo
aded.
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/book.cls
Document Class: book 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/bk10.clo
! Font OT1/cmr/m/n/10=cmr10 at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found
.
<to be read again> 
                   relax 
l.64 \normalsize
                
)) (/usr/local/src/stats/R-3.6.2/CentOS/share/texmf/tex/latex/Rd.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ifthen.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/longtable.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/bm.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/alltt.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/verbatim.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/url/url.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/textcomp.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ts1enc.def))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)
! Font T1/cmr/m/n/10=ecrm1000 at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not fou
nd.
<to be read again> 
                   relax 
l.100 \fontencoding\encodingdefault\selectfont
                                              
) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfss/times.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/color.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/latexconfig/color.cfg)

! LaTeX Error: File `pdftex.def' not found.

Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
or enter new name. (Default extension: def)

Enter file name: 
! Emergency stop.
<read *> 
         
l.131 ...d{ver@\Gin at driver}{\input{\Gin at driver}}{}
                                                  ^^M
!  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
Transcript written on Rd2.log.
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (TeX Live 2013)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./Rd2.tex
LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
Babel <v3.8m> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, lo
aded.
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/book.cls
Document Class: book 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/bk10.clo
! Font OT1/cmr/m/n/10=cmr10 at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found
.
<to be read again> 
                   relax 
l.64 \normalsize
                
)) (/usr/local/src/stats/R-3.6.2/CentOS/share/texmf/tex/latex/Rd.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ifthen.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/longtable.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/bm.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/alltt.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/verbatim.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/url/url.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/textcomp.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ts1enc.def))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty
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nd.
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) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfss/times.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/color.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/latexconfig/color.cfg)

! LaTeX Error: File `pdftex.def' not found.

Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
or enter new name. (Default extension: def)

Enter file name: 
! Emergency stop.
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l.131 ...d{ver@\Gin at driver}{\input{\Gin at driver}}{}
                                                  ^^M
!  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
Transcript written on Rd2.log.
Error: R CMD build failed (no tarball) for package exSexpr
In addition: Warning message:
In system(paste(Rcmd, "build --keep-empty-dirs", shQuote(dir)),  :
  running command ''/usr/local/src/stats/R-3.6.2/CentOS/bin/R' CMD build --keep-empty-dirs '/tmp/RtmpZs7fPX/Pkgs/exSexpr'' had status 1
Execution halted

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