From Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>  Tue May  5 18:18:02 1998
From: Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> (Martin Maechler)
Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 19:18:02 +0200
Subject: make and all that..
In-Reply-To: <98May5.133306edt.13450@mailgate.bank-banque-canada.ca> (message
 from Paul Gilbert on Tue, 5 May 1998 13:09:35 -0400)
Message-ID: <199805051718.TAA04644@sophie.ethz.ch>

>>>>> "PaulG" == Paul Gilbert <pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca> writes:

    >> I don't expect people who don't read an ./INSTALL or ./README file
    >> to install or run R...

    PaulG> And here I was just thinking how much fun it would be to burn a
    PaulG> CD so everyone could just stick it in their machine and R would
    PaulG> pop up, maybe even with a GUI interface.

Paul, the above behavior ``works'' with binary distributions
	(we have at least Debian and RedHat for Linux),
but never with source code distributions.

We are following  quite a standard approach for source code distributions
having the

	1)
	  ## Edit config.site manually if you want special behavior

	2) 
	  configure
		## configure with arguments if you want....

	3)
	  make

The only thing missing is a ``proper''

	4)
	  make install

which Kurt and Fritz (;-}) will probably provide for R 0.62
which seems to be due currently for Mid-June or so.
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make and all that..
Martin Maechler