On 19/01/16 03:52, Tom Callaway wrote:
On 01/16/2016 05:24 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
All that being said, the question remains as to *why* R cannot find
"texinfo" when it is indeed present on my system.
Rather than give you a lengthy discussion of how RPM building works and
hacking the R spec, let's focus on this question instead (I'm still
willing to show you RPM building if you'd like, because if you're
sticking with Fedora 17 indefinitely it will be useful to you...)
The warning message string "you cannot build info or HTML versions of
the R manuals" comes from m4/R.m4:
if test "${r_cv_prog_texi2any_v5}" != yes; then
warn_info="you cannot build info or HTML versions of the R manuals"
AC_MSG_WARN([${warn_info}])
MAKEINFO=""
else
MAKEINFO="${MAKEINFO}"
fi
In that same file, if you look at the beginning of the m4 function, you
see this comment:
## Building the R Texinfo manuals requires texinfo v5.1 or later.
## Set shell variable r_cv_prog_texi2any_v5 to 'yes' if a recent
## enough Makeinfo is found, and to 'no' otherwise.
Fedora 17 has texinfo 4.1, which is several years older than 5.1. You'll
need to upgrade that to silence this error in R.
You might try rebuilding the latest texinfo src RPM. We're at 6.0 in
Fedora 23+:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=676407
Download the src RPM from that page, then, on your system, try:
rpmbuild --rebuild texinfo-6.0-2.fc24.src.rpm
That should (hopefully) result in a texinfo RPM built for Fedora 17.
Then you can install the new RPMS (they'll be in ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/$target
where $target is probably x86_64):
rpm -Uvh info-6.0-2.fc17.*.rpm texinfo-6.0-2.fc17.*.rpm
hth,
~tom
Okay; tried this. The executive summary is: It didn't work.
In more detail: I got a sequence of warnings
warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
which I ignored. Then got an error:
error: Failed build dependencies:
help2man is needed by texinfo-6.0-2.fc17.x86_64
perl(Locale::Messages) is needed by texinfo-6.0-2.fc17.x86_64
perl(Unicode::EastAsianWidth) is needed by texinfo-6.0-2.fc17.x86_64
perl(Text::Unidecode) is needed by texinfo-6.0-2.fc17.x86_64
Did a sudo yum install help2man which seemed to work. Then searched
around to try to fathom the perl messages. Found indications that I
needed to install perl-libintl-1.20-13.fc21.src.rpm.
Got that rpm and did
rpmbuild --rebuild perl-libintl-1.20-13.fc21.src.rpm
going by analogy and hope. Something seemed to happen. Then did
cd ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64
sudo rpm -Uvh perl-libintl-1.20-13.fc17.x86_64.rpm
perl-libintl-debuginfo-1.20-13.fc17.x86_64.rpm
(The forgoing two lines were actually a single line; I broke it for
email formatting.)
Then tried
rpmbuild --rebuild texinfo-6.0-2.fc24.src.rpm
again. Got the warnings again, of course, then the errors:
error: Failed build dependencies:
perl(Unicode::EastAsianWidth) is needed by texinfo-6.0-2.fc17.x86_64
perl(Text::Unidecode) is needed by texinfo-6.0-2.fc17.x86_64
Found what seemed to be an appropriate rpm and did
rpmbuild --rebuild perl-Unicode-EastAsianWidth-1.33-6.fc23.src.rpm
Got the errors
error: Failed build dependencies:
perl(Module::Package) is needed by
perl-Unicode-EastAsianWidth-1.33-6.fc17.noarch
perl(Pod::Markdown) is needed by perl-Unicode-EastAsianWidth-1.33-6.fc17.noarch
perl(Module::Package::Au) is needed by
perl-Unicode-EastAsianWidth-1.33-6.fc17.noarch
Scrounged around with Google; found instructions for installing perl
modules using "cpanm".
Did
cpan App::cpanminus
and then
cpanm Module::Package
This seemed to install a plethora of Modules. I then tried
rpmbuild --rebuild perl-Unicode-EastAsianWidth-1.33-6.fc23.src.rpm
again, and got the same error messages as before. So perhaps (somehow)
my installation of perl modules was ineffective. But at this stage I
was just getting too flummoxed and bewildered and was feeling too far
out of my depth, so I have for the time being at least given up.
It looks pretty hopeless to me.
cheers,
Rolf
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