Fix DESTDIR

[posophe]

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[vapier]

this doesn't seem to make sense. the build already supports DESTDIR -- see the Makefile.include.in and how it utilizes ROOT/DESTDIR.

[posophe]

The way you're talking about is not the standard one. Without the patch (actually applied on gpm sources in openSUSE), Make BUILDROOT=%{buildroot} isn't handled correctly by make.

[vapier]

it is standard: make install DESTDIR=/some/path works the same in gpm as automake based projects.

your changes, as written, break that behavior because DESTDIR gets expanded twice.

[posophe]

I didn't make the initial patch. Let me just talk to the original author about the changes, and the why they've been done this way.

[vapier]

all the commits have your name on them. if you aren't the author, then you should be fixing your git commits to correctly attribute the original author.

[telmich]

@vapier it's great to see you still being around and sanity checking - thanks a lot for your efforts!

[kloczek]

Any chance to merge this PR and release new version? 🤔

[vapier]

patch attribution is incorrect, and breaks default behavior as written

[kloczek]

Indeed in 16628b4 is typo
which is possible to fix by s,$(DESTDIR) $(includedir)/gpm.h,$(DESTDIR)$(includedir)/gpm.h,

Nevertheless install should use DESTDIR style install as all autoconf or autoconf/automake using projects and this PR fixes that.

[vapier]

this PR is actively broken/bad as i described. look at how DESTDIR is expanded twice.

i'm not against deleting ROOT and moving DESTDIR to the individual rules rather than putting into the immediate path variables, but this PR doesn't do that.

if you want to submit a new PR that correctly fixes things, then please do. this PR, as-is, is not safe, and cannot be merged.