From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Eric Bischoff <ebisch@cybercable.tm.fr>
To: Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc@cu-portland.edu>, docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE Support for XML
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 03:49:00 -0000
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Le Vendredi 10 Novembre 2000 21:35, Gregory Leblanc a écrit :
> make install prefix=$DESTDIR/usr mandir=$DESTDIR/usr/share/man/en
> docdir=/usr/share/doc
>
> it should read
>
> make install prefix=$DESTDIR/usr mandir=$DESTDIR/usr/share/man/en
> docdir=$DESTDIR/usr/share/doc

I just checked. It is intentional that docdir is not buildrooted unlike 
mandir. It is due to the way the autoconf process works.

In the Makefile, you have the following:
	...
	htmldir = $(docdir)/html/docbook-utils-0.6
	...
	install-htmlDATA: $(html_DATA)
	        ...
	        $(mkinstalldirs) $(DESTDIR)$(htmldir)
                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^
so the buildrooting is done outside of the "docdir" variable by autoconf 
default behaviour.

I know this is not logical, but I'm not responsible for that.

I encourage you to give a try at building once agin the package to check what 
I'm saying.