[ESS] Building 18.10-1 from source

[Nicky Chorley]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 at 10:19, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit using gmail.com> wrote:
> This should have been fixed in the master.

Thanks Vitalie. Do you happen to know when this will make its way into
a release? I maintain the package for Slackware Linux and would prefer
to stick to your releases rather than particular Git revisions.

On another note, when trying to build the version from master, on
"make install", it's now hanging when building documentation:

LANG=C texi2dvi --pdf ess.texi
This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
 file:line:error style messages enabled.
entering extended mode
(./ess.texi (/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex
Loading texinfo [version 2005-01-30.17]: Basics, pdf,
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/plain/pdfcolor/pdfcolor.tex) fonts, page headings,
tables, conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc, environments, defuns, macros,
cross references, insertions, (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/epsf/epsf.tex)
localization, and turning on texinfo input format.)
(/tmp/ess-build/ESS/doc/ess-defs.texi) (../VERSION) [1{/usr/share/texmf-var/fon
ts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] [-1] Chapter 1
Underfull \hbox (badness 3942) in paragraph at lines 193--196
[]@textrm Additionally, both Emacs and ESS (and R) are free soft-ware de-signed
 to
(/tmp/ess-build/ESS/doc/currfeat.texi [1])
Cross reference values unknown; you must run TeX again. [2]
(/tmp/ess-build/ESS/doc/newfeat.texi [3] [4]

top tells me that pdfetex has been running for about 10 minutes!
Possibly something wrong with the LaTeX tools on my machine, but I've
not really had a chance to look into this further. Has anyone
experienced anything like this?

Best,

Nicky