'make DESTDIR=/usr/local install' does it wrong

[h01ger]

I did an install using 'make DESTDIR=/usr/local install' and the result is that stuff gets installed to eg /usr/local/usr/bin/rebuilderd which is wrong. This happens to all the installed artifacts...

Happy to explain more if needed.

[h01ger]

to make things clear: DESTDIR=/usr/local should install binaries into /usr/local/bin and DESTDIR=/opt should install binaries into /opt/bin while currently they get installed to /usr/local/usr/bin or /opt/usr/bin respectively and so forth...

[kpcyrd]

According to the documentation this is correct behavior: https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/DESTDIR.html

make DESTDIR=/tmp/stage install

[...]

If your installation step would normally install /usr/local/bin/foo and /usr/local/lib/libfoo.a, then an installation invoked as in the example above would install /tmp/stage/usr/local/bin/foo and /tmp/stage/usr/local/lib/libfoo.a instead.

So setting DESTDIR=/usr/local would result in /usr/local/usr/local/lib/libfoo.a

[jspricke]

@h01ger I think you mean PREFIX: https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Directory-Variables.html#index-prefix