The macro was made to help installing broken packages that did not use DESTDIR correctly by overriding individual path variables (prefix, sysconfdir, ...). Newer rpm provides fixed make_install macro that calls make install with just the correct DESTDIR, however it is not available everywhere (e.g., RHEL 5 does not have it). On the other hand the make_install macro is simple and straightforward enough for us to use its expansion directly. --- libvirt.spec.in | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/libvirt.spec.in b/libvirt.spec.in index 87253c6..8df908d 100644 --- a/libvirt.spec.in +++ b/libvirt.spec.in @@ -1336,7 +1336,11 @@ gzip -9 ChangeLog %install rm -fr %{buildroot} -%makeinstall SYSTEMD_UNIT_DIR=%{buildroot}%{_unitdir} +# Avoid using makeinstall macro as it changes prefixes rather than setting +# DESTDIR. Newer make_install macro would be better but it's not available +# on RHEL 5, thus we need to expand it here. +make install DESTDIR=%{?buildroot} SYSTEMD_UNIT_DIR=%{_unitdir} + for i in domain-events/events-c dominfo domsuspend hellolibvirt openauth python xml/nwfilter systemtap do (cd examples/$i ; make clean ; rm -rf .deps .libs Makefile Makefile.in) -- 1.8.1.2