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.tur...@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 > us...@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 > > -- > Technical Editor ANZJS > Department of Statistics > University of Auckland > Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Fedora mailing list > R-SIG-Fedora@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-fedora _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Fedora mailing list R-SIG-Fedora@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-fedora