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

[mschwartz at mn.rr.com]

Hi Sudipto,

OK. Just for clarification:

'make' will simply do the compilation 'in place' in the source directory
tree. No installation is performed here.

'make install' will actually do the installation into the target folder.

You can do 'make install' without 'make' first, but I suspect a lot of
folks, myself included, will run 'make' first and then run 'make
check-all' before installing, to be sure that the compilation is intact
and passes all checks. 

In fact, I keep the output of 'make check-all' as part of my
installation validation documentation.

That being said, were there any error messages output during 'make
install' that might suggest a problem such as access permission issues
to the target directory or the like?

You might also want to run (I think this is correct):

 dmesg

in a console to look for any 'avc' error messages in the error log. This
would be related to FC5's use of SELinux and there have been very
significant SELinux related policy changes in FC5 that could feasibly be
involved here also.

HTH,

Marc


On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 11:25 -0500, Sudipto Banerjee wrote:
> 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.

> 
> 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
> >