Github user micah commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/302#issuecomment-108083567
I'm not positive, but I think putting the DESTDIR into the configure script
isn't the right place. The DESTDIR environment variable should be usable as a
prefix in from of installation paths for supporting changing the prefix at
'make install' time, *without* changing any of the paths built into the
software. I think that changing it in configure will make it so that pathing
will get built into all of the things that are made, when it should just be
used in the Makefile to change things (for the 'make install').
As a side note, after running make, running make install should not rebuild
any files and in particular shouldn't encode any new paths. Otherwise, it's
very hard to install the software in a temporary staging area without including
the paths to the staging area in the final software (which in the case of RPATH
can even be a security concern).
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