R SIG Fedora - Jan 2016 - WARNING you cannot build info or html versions of the R manuals

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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