Package: debian-policy Version: 3.2.1.0 Section 4.1 of the policy manual says to build after setting
INSTALL = install In addition to the fact that the example should use INSTALL_PROGRAM because of the strip example later in this section, the value of the variable should be /usr/bin/install. If it is set to a non-absolute path, configure will add dots in subdirectories to refer to the top-level command, and then calls to $(INSTALL) or $(INSTALL_PROGRAM) will fail, as in: ../install: No such file or directory YA -- My opinions do not necessarily reflect my company's. The opposite is also true.