[Rd] problem building R from svn repo

Davor Cubranic cubranic at stat.ubc.ca
Mon Nov 15 02:15:15 CET 2010


> > You should not run configure or make with sudo.  If you need to
> > install system-wide, you only need to run make install under sudo,
> > like
> > ./configure
> > make
> > sudo make install
> 
> I thougt so, and did so first. But that generated other errors!,
> which was killed by using sudo.

Those errors were probably an indication of a deeper problem with your 
setup. Using 'sudo configure' didn't fix them, just sweep them under the 
carpet for a little while.

Davor



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