From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Wed Sep  9 09:11:11 2015
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 08:11:11 +0100
Subject: [Rd] Build R form source - manuals
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On 09/09/2015 07:40, arnaud gaboury wrote:
> I built R form source succesfully on my Fedora 22 box. No errors.

Which version of R?
>
> I can read there is an issue with some manuals at build time when
> running makeinfo, especially these two:
> doc/manual/R-exts.texi
> cp doc/manual/R-intro.texi
> Some distro have hacks about makeinfo 5 in their build script.
>
> I wonder if some manuals are broken but couldn't see it when running make.
>
>
> May someone tells me more about this issue and what can I do to make
> sure these manuals are correctly built.

You are the one claiming there is an issue, so the onus is on you to 
tell us.

Recent versions of R work with makeinfo 5.1/2 (5.0 is broken) or report 
that makeinfo is not available.  And versions released after 6.0 work 
with 6.0 ....

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford
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[Rd] Build R form source - manuals
Prof Brian Ripley