Something should be added to the Writing Extensions manual since one gets this message during the R CMD build on Vista:
hhc: not found CHM compile failed: HTML Help Workshop not installed? and one is not really sure if the result is ok or not -- it does say it FAILED. Even better would be to get rid of the message or improve the message. Again, this all refers to doing a build on Vista. On 9/16/07, Uwe Ligges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > > The Writing Extensions manual says to do an R CMD build for releases > > to CRAN. That's what I have been doing and that does produce a .tar.gz > > file even though I get a message about hhc.exe. Is that what I should > > continue > > to do and ignore the message or should I be using one of the alternatives > > you mention to create a .tar.gz release file on Vista? > > Well, to produce a tar.gz, it is not required to have hhc.exe. It might > happen that vignettes are created and therefore the package is installed > for this purpose (and hhc is used to produce some help pages - > temporarily). When hhc is not found at that place, just ignore it, the > resulting .tar.gz should really be fine. > > Uwe Ligges > > > On 9/16/07, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 15/09/2007 10:27 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > >>> On Windows Vista hhc.exe is not available. One can do this on an > >>> install: > >>> > >>> rcmd install --docs=normal myPackage > >>> > >>> to avoid the message about hhc.exe; however, > >>> "rcmd build" does not appear to support --docs=normal so one cannot > >>> do a build without getting a message about hhc.exe (although the build > >>> still proceeds). > >> Are you talking about "build --binary"? I recommend using "install > >> --build" instead. AFAIK a non-binary build doesn't make any use of hhc. > >> > >> Another way to do an install or build without getting that message is to > >> indicate in src/gnuwin32/MkRules that you don't want to build CHM help. > >> > >> Duncan Murdoch > >> > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
