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

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:01:05 -0500

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>    make install prefix=/foo/bar
>
> I have yet to see a package that doesn't support that.

Oh, OK. Seems weird to me though.
Why did GNU invent DESTDIR then?