We know: this is due to a change in where the version is stored that someone did not check the consequences of. It will be fixed shortly (I am testing a fix right now). Meanwhile,
make; make; make install works. On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Cyrus Harmon wrote: > I'm trying to build from the latest SVN sources on Mac OS X 10.4.3 > and I seem to be having a problem making the documentation. > > When I do make install, i get the following: > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):~/src/R/r-devel/build-f95$ make install > make[1]: Nothing to be done for `front-matter'. > SVN-REVISION is unchanged > make[1]: Nothing to be done for `install'. > make[1]: Nothing to be done for `install'. > installing doc ... > /sw/bin/install: cannot stat `R.1': No such file or directory > make[1]: *** [install-man] Error 1 > make: *** [install] Error 1 > > which is due to the fact that R.1 doesn't exist. When I try to make R. > 1 by going into docs and doing make svnonly, I get: > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):~/src/R/r-devel/build-f95/doc$ make svnonly > make[1]: `R.fe' is up to date. > help2man: can't get `--version' info from ../src/scripts/R.fe > > > When I try to run help2man manually I get: > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):~/src/R/r-devel/build-f95/doc$ perl ../../R/tools/ > help2man.pl --include=../../R/doc/R.aux --no-info --output=R.1 -- > name="a language for data analysis and graphics" ../src/scripts/R.fe > help2man: can't get `--version' info from ../src/scripts/R.fe > > > If I try to get the version info from ../src/scripts/R.fe directly, I > get: > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):~/src/R/r-devel/build-f95/doc$ ../src/scripts/R.fe -- > version > Version 2.3.0 Under development (unstable) (2006-01-07 r37011) > Copyright (C) 2006 R Development Core Team > > R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. > You are welcome to redistribute it under the terms of the > GNU General Public License. For more information about > these matters, see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html. > > > So that seems to work. There must be some problem parsing this > output. Does have an idea why help2man is failing here? > > Thanks, > > Cyrus > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
