[Rd] Installation oddity on Fedora Core 5 (PR#8814)

[mschwartz at mn.rr.com]

On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 18:10 +0200, sudiptob at biostat.umn.edu wrote:
> Hello guys:
> 
> I recently installed FC 5 linux and installed R from source. It installed
> fine, but there was an oddity that I want to report. Although I used
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/R-2.3.0
> 
> make
> 
> it did not seem to recognize the prefix and went ahead and installed it in
> the source directory -- I usually ``tar xzf'' it to my home directory
> and run the installation scripts from there (as root) to install to
> /usr/local/R-2.3.0
> 
> 
> This procedure worked fine on earlier versions of Fedora as well as on
> debian and other distros. Wonder if this is a gcc-4.1 or GNU make issue.
> 
> Any feedback will be much appreciated.
> 
> Tx.
> 
> Sudipto.

This question may be akin to "Is the computer plugged in?", but did you
also run:

  make install

?

HTH,

Marc Schwartz