WARNING you cannot build info or html versions of the R manuals

[Rolf Turner]

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

[Heinz Diehl]

On 16.01.2016, Rolf Turner wrote:
> sudo yum install texinfo
> > Package texinfo-4.13a-16.fc17.x86_64 already installed and latest version
> > Nothing to do

Try with the associated texinfo-devel package.

[Rolf Turner]

On 18/01/16 01:45, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> On 16.01.2016, Rolf Turner wrote:
> >  sudo yum install texinfo
> > > Package texinfo-4.13a-16.fc17.x86_64 already installed and latest version
> > > Nothing to do
>
> Try with the associated texinfo-devel package.

At first I thought "Duh!!! Of course!!!"  Then I tried

sudo yum install texinfo-devel

and got
> No package texinfo-devel available.
> Error: Nothing to do

I then tried checking with

yum whatprovides texinfo-devel

and got
> No Matches found

(so I guess I can't start the fire! :-) )

Thus I am again at a loss.  Any further suggestions?

cheers,

Rolf Turner