bug#11737: Setting DESTDIR and infodir breaks doc/misc/Makefile.in

[Rob Browning]

It looks like there may be a problem with the interaction between
DESTDIR and infodir in 24.1.  You can see the problem by running
something like this after a configure and make:

  make DESTDIR=/some/where infodir=/forbidden/place/ install

Assuming you don't have access to /forbidden/, the install process will
fail in doc/misc here:

  mkinfodir = @cd ${srcdir}; test -d ${infodir} || mkdir ${infodir} || test -d 
${infodir}

because the infodir setting (without modification by DESTDIR) will be
passed down from ./Makefile.in and override the doc/misc/Makefile.in
setting:

  infodir=../../info

I would guess that either doc/misc/Makefile.in should respect DESTDIR,
or this bit of ./Makefile.in:

  info-real:
        (cd doc/misc; $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) info)

should either unset infodir before calling $(MAKE), or should specify an
infodir that respects DESTDIR.

Hope this helps.
-- 
Rob Browning
rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org
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