On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 04:33:26PM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> I don't think there is anything you can "ask" about this.
>
> Generally the idea is that in trixie and later, --prefix=/usr really
> means that. Anything that excluded subdirs from ${prefix} should be
> a thing of the past. If the upstream build system ignores ${prefix}
> for a certain location, you'll need to override it :-(
Well, it's pretty straight-up autoconf (no automake). Makefile.in contains
PREFIX=@prefix@
SYSCONFDIR=@sysconfdir@
LOCALSTATEDIR=@localstatedir@
LIBDIR=@libdir@
and installs into $(LIBDIR).
dh_auto_configure runs configure with (among others)
--prefix=/usr --libdir=\${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
But nothing ever defines lowercase ${prefix}. It's possible that it expects
the upstream Makefile to do
prefix=$(PREFIX)
or something similar? But it's unclear to my why it doesn't just do
--libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
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