[Fontconfig-bugs] [Bug 92406] /opt/bin/make install DESTDIR=/xxx/yyy does not work solely in DESTDIR but also references ${prefix} without ${DESTDIR}

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92406

--- Comment #3 from Akira TAGOH <akira at tagoh.org> ---
(In reply to Michael Felt from comment #2)
> You can call it "not a bug", but then you may want to document that make 
> DESTDIR=/something/else will never work because the make process cannot 
> deal with the symbolic links auto(anything) makes.
> Probably "not a bug", at least not of fontconfig - but of one of the 
> tools you use to automate builds of fontconfig.

It looks like you are misunderstanding about DESTDIR. see
https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/DESTDIR.html

If you want to install them permernently under $DESTDIR, you should do that
with --prefix and other options for configure script that determine the install
path, instead of using $DESTDIR.
I don't know what kind of problems you are facing at this moment though, it
works fine with many packaging systems so that I've never ever heard any
complaints about it.

> IMHO - this is something that auto-thingy should be able to do so that 
> make DESTDIR=/var/DESTDIR would work.

Wrong. you should better understand how packaging systems works to build a
package.

> (stripping $DESTDIR from the full filepathname

That's why symlinks works at the end on packaging system enabled environments.
symlinks points to the proper files when installing the package then.
Doing both of validating symlinks and creating a package isn't feasible,
particularly it contains a symlink. if you are fixing that anyway to work a
symlink validation, you'll see a problem after installing that package because
symlinks points to $DESTDIR/path/to/file where isn't available. so you
eventually need to re-link them.

>                                                - but the make command 
> itself that fails!

It's not our fault. no fails with "make" itself on what we shipped.

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