Github user micah commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/302#issuecomment-106585018
ok, it seemed like I had a network glitch when the configure ran so the
mango repository wasn't pulled, it now compiles fine. Now it is just a matter
of resolving the make process to work without absolute paths, because right now
what happens is this:
```
```
install_dir = /usr/couchdb
data_dir = /var/lib/couchdb
view_index_dir = /var/lib/couchdb
log_file = /var/log/couchdb.log
user = couchdb
```
then we have this issue:
```
==> rel (generate)
WARN: 'generate' command does not apply to directory
/home/micah/debian/couchdb/couchdb-2.0
mkdir: cannot create directory â/usr/couchdbâ: Permission denied
Makefile:86: recipe for target 'install' failed
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/micah/debian/couchdb/couchdb-2.0'
dh_auto_install: make -j1 install
DESTDIR=/home/micah/debian/couchdb/couchdb-2.0/debian/couchdb
AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no returned exit code 2
debian/rules:3: recipe for target 'binary' failed
```
Thus, the install target in the Makefile fails because it tries to copy to
an absolute path from the install.mk. To avoid this one needs to use
[$DESTDIR](https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/DESTDIR.html) so it
will do things like this (for example):
```
mkdir $(DESTDIR)$(install_dir)
cp $(abs_top_srcdir)/foo/bar.erl $(DESTDIR)$(install_dir)/lib
```
etc.
This should be done in all places of install and uninstall. This also needs
to be incorporated in the configure process. Once this is corrected I think I
can continue to build a proper package.
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