R help - May 1999 - Compilation help!

Help!
I'm running successfully R_0.64.1 under windows95 with bother and
thoroughly enjoying using it, but I would prefer to run under UNIX, I
downloaded the various files but I'm coming across the following
problem. Can anybody suggest anything to help me.
Executing
./configure --prefix=/myworkspace/R

leads me to

R is now configured for mips-sgo-irix6.4

   Source directory:		.
   Installation directory:	/myworkspace/R
   C compiler:			gcc -c -02
   FORTRAN compiler		f77
   Gnome support:		no

Fine up to here. When I tried make, I got the following error

UX:make: ERROR: make: file `Makefile' line 49: bad character & (octal
46)
*** Error code 1 (bu21)

But on reading line 49 of the Makefile, no '&' character is there.
The line is
	@(cd $(srcdir); \
	  for f in COPYING COPYRIGHTS MIRROR-SITES RESOURCES; do \
	    $(INSTALL_DATA) $${f} $(rhome); \     		   # LINE 49
	  done)

Any ideas?!

Thanks

Gary Collins.

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"Gary S. Collins" <G.S.Collins at exeter.ac.uk> writes:
> Fine up to here. When I tried make, I got the following error
> 
> UX:make: ERROR: make: file `Makefile' line 49: bad character &
(octal
> 46)
> *** Error code 1 (bu21)
Haven't seen that one before, I think, but the knee-jerk reflex is to
ask you to try GNU make instead. If that's inconvenient, you should
probably first look into the definition of the variables that get
expanded on line 49 and see if they somehow got to contain an &.

The variable definitions are generally in Makeconf in the top build
directory.

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