On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 4:41 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

Thanks. But we have other installation commands that use just
$(srcdir) (which is a relative directory, AFAICT), and they do work
with checkinstall, so I wonder how is this one different.

Not sure either, but using $(srcdir) does not fix the issue because

of the `pwd` when running checkinstall.