Hi:
What distribution (Suse, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Fedora,...) are you using? Usually it is preferable to use the native package format, but you can create a 'package' using other methods, too.
Do configure and make as usual, but execute make DESTDIR=./pkg install instead of make install. Now you'll have all files in the directory ./pkg and you can tar them. (create a tar.bzip2 or tar.gz package).
To install the package, just unpack it to /.