Problems with installing rgdal on Ubuntu "checking gdal: linking with --libs only... no"

I've had good luck using checkinstall [1] to manage custom compiled packages as well, if you do want to have custom compiled packages which are registered with the system package management system. I've found this to be invaluable when working with dependency heavy packages like GDAL. 

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From: R-sig-Geo [mailto:r-sig-geo-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Edzer Pebesma
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2016 4:03 PM
To: r-sig-geo at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] Problems with installing rgdal on Ubuntu "checking gdal: linking with --libs only... no"

I am surprised that I had to manually delete files from the disk (I 
guess manual install means manual deletion?), but yes this does solve 
the problem.

You didn't have to: from the gdal source directory where you installed manually by

./configure
make
sudo make install

you can also do a

sudo make clean

which should remove everything (including e.g. the header files now still in /usr/local/include)
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