On 22 February 2016 at 09:57, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: | There are problems with the texi2dvi in the recently released texinfo | 6.1. (The bug has been reported.) Avoid 6.1 if you can, but if not | setting the environment variable | | R_TEXI2DVICMD=emulation | | will enable R to build, including NEWS.pdf and all the vignettes. | | We are working on a more complete workaround for R-devel and 3.2.4.
Confirming that there are issues. I had to rebuild 3.2.3 for Debian (as the default JDK switched from OpenJDK 7 to 8) and had it just fail on NEWS.pdf for no clear reason. I was a bit short on time last week because of travel; I should have reported back here. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel