From ch-r-devel at bobobeach.com  Sat Jan  7 19:41:24 2006
From: ch-r-devel at bobobeach.com (Cyrus Harmon)
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 10:41:24 -0800
Subject: [Rd] minor build problem
Message-ID: <B6EA82F9-98BE-4899-90AE-CE455AF3F391@bobobeach.com>

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:

(sly at gigondas):~/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:

(sly at gigondas):~/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:

(sly at gigondas):~/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:

(sly at gigondas):~/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



[Rd] minor build problem
Cyrus Harmon