Subject: bug#8362: make install prefix inserted in source code with generated python files

From: Mike Frysinger <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2022 19:35:17 +0000 (UTC)

On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:36:45 +0200, A.T.Hofkamp wrote:
> As far as I know, "make install prefix=/path/to/writable/dir" should only change the place where 
> files are copied to, instead of injecting that new prefix into the source code. However, for Python 
> source files that are generated/modified during installation, this does not seem to hold:

really looks like you want to be using DESTDIR= instead of prefix=.
i don't think the behavior described here in general is a bug in
Automake.  that said, we should be compiling the script as part
of `all`.
-mike