zorun/jbofihe — comment on commit 8af23bf9b83d0222c136f01c70d84c045d9e2245
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By zorun:

Actually, it's unrelated to the prefix.

`DESTDIR` only indicates where the files should be copied to, which is highly desirable when building a package. You could for instance set `DESTDIR` to `/tmp/pkg/jbofihe`, which would install files to `/tmp/pkg/jbofihe/usr/{bin,lib}/…` (assuming `--prefix=/usr`).

Without that, you can't use `make install` to build a package because everything would be copied to `/usr/{bin,lib,…}` directly. If you look at the Debian package, it's not using `make install` (for that very reason).

Note that if `DESTDIR` is not set, the behavior is the same as before the patch.