when installing latex2html from sources I noticed that in any Makefile in
it (generated from configure script) that was the string DESTDIR
#cd latex2html-2002-2-1
#grep -i DESTDIR ./
nothing...

while make install DESTDIR=my_dir works well!

does anyone know why?

I guess you have to give "--prefix=xyz" in make where "xyz" is the
directory where the package will be installed. Since no prefix is
mentioned, DESTDIR becomes null.

try "make prefix=<dest dir you want>"

Hope this helps.

Cheers, Indhu

On Jul 20, 10:14 pm, heavytull <heavyt...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> when installing latex2html from sources I noticed that in any Makefile in
> it (generated from configure script) that was the string DESTDIR
> #cd latex2html-2002-2-1
> #grep -i DESTDIR ./
> nothing...
>
> while make install DESTDIR=my_dir works well!
>
> does anyone know why?