Re: make-stds: DESTDIR should be absolute

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Karl,

* Karl Berry wrote on Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 02:10:43AM CEST:
>     explicitly specified DESTDIR as an absolute name.
> 
> Can't a relative path be immediately converted to an absolute path by
> `cd $arg && pwd`
> ?

Sure, but that would turn out to be extremely cumbersome to write in a
set of Makefile rules.  Let alone the fact that I have yet to see one
recursive Makefile setup where the lower level is called with
  $(MAKE) $(MAKEFLAGS) DESTDIR=../$(DESTDIR)

or
  $(MAKE) $(MAKEFLAGS) DESTDIR=`cd $(DESTDIR) && pwd`

So really this patch clarifies existing practice.

Cheers,
Ralf