make-stds: DESTDIR should be absolute

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello bug-standards, bug-autoconf,

I would prefer if make-stds explicitly specified DESTDIR as an absolute
name.  I've encountered a report a while ago where the user used a
relative one; it suits me right that I cannot find it right now, sorry.
Automake and Libtool both depend on this to be the case.  Below is a
suggested patch against gnulib's copy of the file.

Cheers,
Ralf

2007-08-17  Ralf Wildenhues  <address@hidden>

        * doc/make-stds.texi (DESTDIR): Must be an absolute name.

Index: doc/make-stds.texi
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/gnulib/gnulib/doc/make-stds.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -u -r1.13 make-stds.texi
--- doc/make-stds.texi  19 Aug 2006 17:48:02 -0000      1.13
+++ doc/make-stds.texi  17 Aug 2007 00:04:43 -0000
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 @cindex standards for makefiles
 
 @c Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001,
address@hidden 2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
address@hidden 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 @c Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
 @c under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@
 @end example
 
 The @code{DESTDIR} variable is specified by the user on the @code{make}
-command line.  For example:
+command line as an absolute name.  For example:
 
 @example
 make DESTDIR=/tmp/stage install