[R-sig-Fedora] WARNING you cannot build info or html versions of the R manuals

[Tom Callaway]

Are you building from a source tarball or using the Fedora SRPM? I strongly advise you to rebuild the SRPM, because the resulting binary RPM will have all the necessary deps for building and installing. You might need to change the spec up a bit, since I assume building on Fedora means a modern system, and f17.... isn't modern.

On Jan 16, 2016 4:48 PM, Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>
>
> My apologies for an inadvertent cross-posting.  I *intended* to send 
> this message to r-sig-fedora but by mistake sent it to 
> users at lists.fedoraproject.org  . 
> So I am re-sending it to the address that I actually intended. 
>
> Again, I apologise for the screw-up. 
>
> So.  Here we go again: 
>
> It's no big deal, but when I build R from source (as I must) I always 
> get the warning given in the subject line of this post. 
>
> I have searched the web a bit and have found a number of references to 
> this warning.  Universally the proffered solution is "install texinfo". 
>
> So I did (just now) 
>
>      sudo yum install texinfo 
>
> and was told: 
>
> > Package texinfo-4.13a-16.fc17.x86_64 already installed and latest version 
> > Nothing to do 
>
> I checked with "whereis texinfo" and got: 
>
> > texinfo: /usr/share/texinfo /usr/share/man/man5/texinfo.5.gz 
>
>
> So it's there on my system --- but perhaps not where R can find it??? 
>
> Can anyone suggest to me what I need to do to get R and texinfo to 
> cooperate? 
>
> Please note that I am running Fedora 17.  Yes, I know, it's 
> antediluvian.  But for reasons I do not wish to discuss, I'm stuck 
> there.  (This is one of the reasons why I must build R from source. 
> It all works fine, except for that warning.) 
>
> cheers, 
>
> Rolf Turner 
>
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