Subject: Re: bug#16772: Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 13:00:43 -0500

Dani Moncayo wrote:

> I've tried the patch:  I've gone to the build directory and done "make
> install prefix='../myinstalldir' GZIP_INFO= GZIP_PROG=".  The process
> has ended up this way:

Don't change `prefix' at install time.
You should only set prefix with configure.
And if you try, it will say:

  configure: error: expected an absolute directory name for --prefix:
    ../myinstalldir

It's DESTDIR that you may change at install time:

https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/DESTDIR.html

And as has been said, that should be absolute too.