This is a duplicate of 4600 which I can't reopen because my old account is disabled. Additional comment: The use of checkinstall is very handy. With checkinstall you could install any programm with configure, make, checkinstall (instead of make install) and because it is then installed as rpm you could delete that programm with a simple rpm -e. Very, very handy.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4600 ***