Github user micah commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/302#issuecomment-110499701
The DESTDIR works as it should, thanks for that!
Now we can move on to other issues I think:
. old versions of couchdb using autotools, would install things into their
architecture dependent directories, so things would look like this:
```
/etc/couchdb
/etc/couchdb/local.d
/etc/couchdb/default.d
/etc/couchdb/local.ini
/etc/couchdb/default.ini
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/couchdb
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/couchdb/bin
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/couchdb/bin/couchjs
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/couchdb/erlang
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/couchdb/erlang/lib
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/couchdb/erlang/lib/snappy-1.0.5
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/couchdb/erlang/lib/snappy-1.0.5/priv
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/couchdb/erlang/lib/snappy-1.0.5/priv/snappy_nif.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/couchdb/erlang/lib/snappy-1.0.5/priv/snappy_nif.la
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/couchdb/erlang/lib/snappy-1.0.5/ebin
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/couchdb/erlang/lib/snappy-1.0.5/ebin/snappy.beam
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/couchdb/erlang/lib/snappy-1.0.5/ebin/snappy.app
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/couchdb/erlang/lib/mochiweb-1.4.1
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/couchdb/erlang/lib/mochiweb-1.4.1/ebin
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/couchdb/erlang/lib/mochiweb-1.4.1/ebin/reloader.beam
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/couchdb/erlang/lib/mochiweb-1.4.1/ebin/mochiweb_util.beam
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/couchdb/erlang/lib/mochiweb-1.4.1/ebin/mochiweb_sup.beam
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/couchdb/erlang/lib/mochiweb-1.4.1/ebin/mochiweb_socket_server.beam
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/couchdb/erlang/lib/mochiweb-1.4.1/ebin/mochiweb_socket.beam
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/couchdb/erlang/lib/mochiweb-1.4.1/ebin/mochiweb_skel.beam
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/couchdb/erlang/lib/mochiweb-1.4.1/ebin/mochiweb_response.beam
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/couchdb/erlang/lib/mochiweb-1.4.1/ebin/mochiweb_request.beam
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/couchdb/erlang/lib/mochiweb-1.4.1/ebin/mochiweb_multipart.beam
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/couchdb/erlang/lib/mochiweb-1.4.1/ebin/mochiweb_mime.beam
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/couchdb/erlang/lib/mochiweb-1.4.1/ebin/mochiweb_io.beam
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/couchdb/erlang/lib/mochiweb-1.4.1/ebin/mochiweb_http.beam
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/couchdb/erlang/lib/mochiweb-1.4.1/ebin/mochiweb_html.beam
...
```
but the new configure script installs things like this:
```
/usr/couchdb
/usr/couchdb/share
/usr/couchdb/share/server
/usr/couchdb/share/server/main.js
/usr/couchdb/share/server/coffee-script.js
/usr/couchdb/releases
/usr/couchdb/releases/start_erl.data
/usr/couchdb/releases/RELEASES
/usr/couchdb/releases/2.0.0a
/usr/couchdb/releases/2.0.0a/sys.config
/usr/couchdb/releases/2.0.0a/couchdb.boot
/usr/couchdb/releases/2.0.0a/vm.args
/usr/couchdb/releases/2.0.0a/start_clean.boot
/usr/couchdb/releases/2.0.0a/couchdb.script
/usr/couchdb/releases/2.0.0a/start_clean.rel
/usr/couchdb/releases/2.0.0a/start_clean.script
/usr/couchdb/releases/2.0.0a/couchdb.rel
/usr/couchdb/var
/usr/couchdb/var/log
/usr/couchdb/etc
/usr/couchdb/etc/local.ini
/usr/couchdb/etc/default.ini
/usr/couchdb/etc/vm.args
/usr/couchdb/bin
/usr/couchdb/bin/couchjs
/usr/couchdb/bin/couchdb
/usr/couchdb/lib
/usr/couchdb/lib/fabric-2.0.0-275327e
/usr/couchdb/lib/fabric-2.0.0-275327e/ebin
/usr/couchdb/lib/fabric-2.0.0-275327e/ebin/fabric_view_changes.beam
/usr/couchdb/lib/fabric-2.0.0-275327e/ebin/fabric.beam
/usr/couchdb/lib/fabric-2.0.0-275327e/ebin/fabric_db_doc_count.beam
/usr/couchdb/lib/fabric-2.0.0-275327e/ebin/fabric_view_map.beam
/usr/couchdb/lib/fabric-2.0.0-275327e/ebin/fabric_doc_update.beam
/usr/couchdb/lib/fabric-2.0.0-275327e/ebin/fabric_view.beam
/usr/couchdb/lib/fabric-2.0.0-275327e/ebin/fabric_db_delete.beam
/usr/couchdb/lib/fabric-2.0.0-275327e/ebin/fabric_db_create.beam
/usr/couchdb/lib/fabric-2.0.0-275327e/ebin/fabric_db_update_listener.beam
/usr/couchdb/lib/fabric-2.0.0-275327e/ebin/fabric_db_meta.beam
/usr/couchdb/lib/fabric-2.0.0-275327e/ebin/fabric_view_reduce.beam
/usr/couchdb/lib/fabric-2.0.0-275327e/ebin/fabric_util.beam
/usr/couchdb/lib/fabric-2.0.0-275327e/ebin/fabric_doc_attachments.beam
/usr/couchdb/lib/fabric-2.0.0-275327e/ebin/fabric.app
```
There are a few problems with this new installation path:
. /usr/couchdb/share should be /usr/share/couchdb
. /usr/couchdb/var should be /var
. /usr/couchdb/etc should be /etc
. /usr/couchdb/bin should be /usr/bin
. things shouldn't be under /usr/couchdb in general... i suppose I can set
the -p prefix directory in configure to be /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu (or
dynamically to the right architecture), but if I do that, then it will change
the pathing for the share, var, etc, bin pieces mentioned above.
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