[Rd] incompletely built html documentation (PR#1142)

Peter Dalgaard BSA p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk
24 Oct 2001 12:05:04 +0200


dks@phy.hr writes:

> After building and installing R 1.3.1, i find some of the html files missing:
> 
> > ls -l /opt/lib/R/doc/manual/
> total 0
> -rw-r--r--   1 root       sys              0 Oct 17 22:16 R-FAQ.html
> -rw-r--r--   1 root       sys              0 Oct 17 22:16 R-admin.html
> -rw-r--r--   1 root       sys              0 Oct 17 22:16 R-data.html
> -rw-r--r--   1 root       sys              0 Oct 17 22:16 R-exts.html
> -rw-r--r--   1 root       sys              0 Oct 17 22:16 R-intro.html
> -rw-r--r--   1 root       sys              0 Oct 17 22:16 R-lang.html
> 
> I can trace this to the lines
> 
> .texi.html:
>         $(MAKEINFO) --no-split --html -I$(srcdir) $< -o $@ || touch $@
> 
> in the file
> 
> doc/manual/Makefile
> 
> where MAKEINFO is defined (in the same file)
> 
> MAKEINFO = false
> 
> (correctly, because I don't have the info system installed).

Well, those files are based on texinfo sources. Without the makeinfo
program you're not going to get them built...

(This is orthogonal to having the info *reader* system installed).

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