building ess 5.1.13

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Herron <m-herron at northwestern.edu> writes:

    MiHe> Hello.

    MiHe> The makefile changes in 5.1.13 solved my gnu make problems.  Thanks!
you're welcome

    MiHe> But, I still have problems on the info files.

You now get the *.info files with the ESS distribution.
They should *not*  be remade by make anyway...
hmm, funny..

    MiHe> gmake EMACS=xemacs

    MiHe> runs fine until

    MiHe> gmake[1]: Entering directory `/.../nwu.edu/fs/home/m/mch927/lib/emacs/ess-5.1.13/doc'
    MiHe> making Info documentation...
    MiHe> makeinfo ess.texi
    MiHe> Making info file `ess.info' from `ess.texi'.
    MiHe> /.../nwu.edu/fs/home/m/mch927/lib/emacs/ess-5.1.13/doc/ess.info-1: Permission denied
    MiHe> gmake[1]: *** [ess.info] Error 4
		       ...


    MiHe> There appears to be some sort of a permission problem here.  

    MiHe> Note that:

    MiHe> brahms(mch927) 48% ls -l doc/ess.info
    MiHe> -r--------   1 mch927     users         2957 Mar  6 04:38 doc/ess.info

yes, and it is in the tar file:

lynne{maechler}549> tar tfvz .../CRAN/src/other/ess/ESS-5.1.13.tar.gz |grep info
-r--r--r-- 2110/10        2957 2000-03-06 11:38:50 ess-5.1.13/doc/ess.info
-r--r--r-- 2110/10       50026 2000-03-06 12:19:50 ess-5.1.13/doc/ess.info-1
-r--r--r-- 2110/10       50829 2000-03-06 12:19:50 ess-5.1.13/doc/ess.info-2
-r--r--r-- 2110/10       16667 2000-03-06 12:19:51 ess-5.1.13/doc/ess.info-3

A bug in the "dist" target of the toplevel Makefile.
I've corrected it for the next release.

Thank you for reporting!


    ...............


    MiHe> texi2dvi  ess.texi
    MiHe> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (C version 6.1)
    MiHe> (/tmp/5614/ess.texi
    MiHe> Babel <v3.6h> and hyphenation patterns for american, german, loaded.
    MiHe> (/.../nwu.edu/fs/opt/teTeX/texmf/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex
    MiHe> Loading texinfo package [Version 2.196]: Basics, fonts, page headings, tables,
    MiHe> indexing, sectioning, toc printing, environments, defuns, cross reference,
    MiHe> and turning on texinfo input format.) [1] [2] Chapter1
    MiHe> Cross reference values unknown; you must run TeX again. [1]
    MiHe> Overfull \hbox (12.18877pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 388--390
    MiHe> [] []@textrm Yet more fixes to SAS mode, thanks to Rich Heiberger ($@textsy h$
    MiHe> @texttt rmh at surfer.stat.temple.edu$@textsy i$@textrm ). |
    MiHe> [2] [3]
    MiHe> ! Undefined control sequence.
    MiHe> l.512 @uref
    MiHe> {http://www.biostat.washington.edu/~rossini/,A.J. Rossini}
    MiHe> ? 


    MiHe> I can for tex to complete by entering R here.   What is @uref?  I have
    MiHe> never seen this before.

@uref ~= URL , a newer texinfo definition.

Get a new version of GNU's texinfo package,
particularly replace your current   
	     texinfo.tex
	     ( = /.../nwu.edu/fs/opt/teTeX/texmf/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex )
by a newer one,
found on any GNU mirror site.


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