On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 6:41 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> Can you explain why you must use abs_srcdir here, and what is special
> about checkinstall that the absolute directory name must be used with
> it?
>

I had the same error as in the stackexchange

```

 Compressing *.el etc. ...
 gzip: ../etc/publicsuffix.txt: No such file or directory
 make: *** [Makefile:571: install-arch-indep] Error 1

 ****  Installation failed. Aborting package creation.

```

When I tried to debug, I found that the `pwd` is on `
/usr/local/share/emacs/28.2/lisp` at this step with checkinstall.
I thought it must be another cd that is not reverted (cd -) but did not
find it, using abs_srcdir here did not look bad either.

Thanks