Built-in variables are stored in the generated Makefile in ascending sort
order. This results in dependency issues specifically for bindir and
exec_prefix. after running './configure --prefix /usr'; the resulting Makefile
variables are as follows:
...
bindir = ${exec_prefix}/bin
build_alias =
builddir = .
...
dvidir = ${docdir}
exec_prefix = ${prefix}
host_alias =
...
pdfdir = ${docdir}
prefix = /usr
program_transform_name = s,x,x,
...
The result is that when make install uses bindir, the value is "/bin", not
"/usr/bin"
Cheers,
Jay