Document that DESTDIR must be an absolute path

ticket: 8731 (new)
tags: pullup
target_version: 1.16-next

diff --git a/doc/build/doing_build.rst b/doc/build/doing_build.rst
index 4605bfb050f7599d216d55eee5c461c161911063..4da19983697e0f155a9ff2fde5d7b1a79ad6fb69 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/build/doing_build.rst
+++ b/doc/build/doing_build.rst
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ use::
 
 This will install the binaries under *DESTDIR/PREFIX*, e.g., the user
 programs will install into *DESTDIR/PREFIX/bin*, the libraries into
-*DESTDIR/PREFIX/lib*, etc.
+*DESTDIR/PREFIX/lib*, etc.  *DESTDIR* must be an absolute path.
 
 Some implementations of make allow multiple commands to be run in
 parallel, for faster builds.  We test our Makefiles in parallel builds