Installation oddity on Fedora Core 5 (PR#8814)

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.

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