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

[sudiptob at biostat.umn.edu]

Hi Marc:

Thanks for your reply. Yeah, I did do

make install

and also tried it with simply make (which is, I presume, enough to
produce the executable scripts for R).

Please keep me posted.

Best,

S.

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Sudipto Banerjee, PhD,
Div. of Biostatistics,
University of Minnesota,
A460 Mayo Building, MMC 303,
420 Delaware Street, SE,
Minneapolis, MN 55455.



On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Marc Schwartz (via MN) wrote:

> 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
>
>
>