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@ -26,6 +26,21 @@ it shouldn't try to use /usr/share here.
when building the package, to make it install into a temporary
directory which gets packaged up.
This is not the case. That is the difference between PREFIX and DESTDIR.
DESTDIR does what you describe; it causes the files to be installed into some
directory you specify, which may not be the same place you'd eventually
run it from.
PREFIX means build the software to run under the location given. Normally it
will also affect the location files are copied to, so that 'make install'
installs a working system.
At least, that's the way I've always understood it; the MakeMaker documentation
isn't entirely clear (perhaps because ordinary Perl modules do not need to be
configured at build time depending on the installation directory). It does mention
that DESTDIR is the thing used by packaging tools.
It would probably be nice if ikiwiki offered a separate build-time
setting to control where it looked for its data files, though it already
offers a way to do it at runtime (--underlaydir and --templatedir).