Automake Bug?

["W. Reilly Cooley, Esq." <wcooley at nakedape dot cc>]

It seems that automake creates makefiles which call themselves with
different targets for the install target, which subsequently causes it to
loose DESTDIR support.  I'm looking at the Makefiles from GNU grep right
now.  Here's the offending section:

install-am: all-am
        @$(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) install-exec-am install-data-am
install: install-am

Now, maybe I'm misunderstanding Make's macro-passing, but in order for
the DESTDIR passed to the make in the first place, doesn't the @$(MAKE)
line need something like 'DESTDIR=$(DESTDIR)' ?  Would this be the
correct way to fix this?

I'm working with
automake (GNU automake) 1.4

and

grep (GNU grep) 2.4

Wil
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