On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 8:36 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 26/01/2015 5:12 PM, Avraham Adler wrote: >> As the build process, especially for Windows, is changing >> significantly for R 3.2.0, I am trying to build R-devel in >> preparation. When running `make rinstaller`, I get the following >> error: >> >> cp -p ../../../etc/x64/Makeconf R-devel/etc/x64 >> mkdir -p R-devel/doc >> cp -p ../../../doc/CRAN_mirrors.csv R-devel/doc >> mkdir -p R-devel/doc/manual/images >> cp -pR ../../../doc/html R-devel/doc >> cp -p ../../../doc/manual/*.html ../../../doc/manual/*.pdf \ >> R-devel/doc/manual >> cp: cannot stat '../../../doc/manual/*.html': No such file or directory >> make[1]: *** [imagedir] Error 1 >> make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/f/R/R-devel/src/gnuwin32/installer' >> make: *** [rinstaller] Error 2 >> >> Looking at the directories, I have "\doc\manual" and >> "F:\R\R-devel\doc\html" and there are no .html files in the \manual >> directory, only pdfs. >> >> I am building on Windows 7 64 bit, so the MkRules.local is being used, >> and the pertinent settings therein include: >> >> BUILD_HTML = YES >> MIKTEX = TRUE >> TEXI2ANY = missing >> >> Is it as simple as changing line 74 in the Makefile under >> src/gnuwin32/installer from: >> >> $(CP) -p $(R_HOME)/doc/manual/*.html $(R_HOME)/doc/manual/*.pdf \ >> >> to >> >> $(CP) -p $(R_HOME)/doc/html/*.html $(R_HOME)/doc/manual/*.pdf \ >> >> Or is the problem that MIKTEX alone can no longer be used and texinfo >> /must/ be installed (as is implied in >> <http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-devel/R-admin.html#Building-the-manuals>? > > Yes, for a complete build you need the texi2any program (and Perl). R > will still build well enough to run, but the help system is incomplete, > and will require an Internet connection to access the manuals. > > Were you interested in distributing the version without the manuals, or > is it just that you haven't updated your Rtools to include texi2any? > > Duncan Murdoch >
I was afraid of that. I had updated Rtools with everything (Perl, ICU, etc.) but was afraid texinfo would interfere with MikTex; my mistake. Fixing that worked, thank you very much. In general, even though I don't distribute binaries to others, I prefer to run through the build all the way to risntaller and then run check-all to make sure everything is working properly. Also, it allows me to use the installer to install a production version of R to one subdirectory and keep mu Two points if I may: 1) The MkRules has the flag TEX2ANY and the texinfo zip has a flag MAKEINFO which seems to require the same statement. I put both in the MkRules.local, but which one should be used? 2) For windows users "/path/to/perl" may be a bit misleading. Most of the other entries require the subdirectory name. This one seems to require the full name of the executable (e.g. "F:/Strawberry/perl/bin/perl.exe"). Once again, thank you, Avi ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
