When we passed some location in DESTDIR, install_headers called do_install with DESTDIR as part of the second argument. But do_install is again using '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$2', so as a result the headers were installed in a location $DESTDIR/$DESTDIR. In my testing I passed DESTDIR=/home/sudip/test and the headers were installed in: /home/sudip/test/home/sudip/test/usr/include/traceevent. Lets remove DESTDIR from the second argument of do_install so that the headers are installed in the correct location. Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx> --- Hi Steve, sent this earlier as an attachment to an email thread, not sure if you saw it, so sending it now properly. The other problem with the pkgconfig, I guess we can live with that for now as that folder is given by pc_path. tools/lib/traceevent/Makefile | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/Makefile b/tools/lib/traceevent/Makefile index 5315f3787f8d..cbb429f55062 100644 --- a/tools/lib/traceevent/Makefile +++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/Makefile @@ -232,10 +232,10 @@ install_pkgconfig: install_headers: $(call QUIET_INSTALL, headers) \ - $(call do_install,event-parse.h,$(DESTDIR)$(includedir_SQ),644); \ - $(call do_install,event-utils.h,$(DESTDIR)$(includedir_SQ),644); \ - $(call do_install,trace-seq.h,$(DESTDIR)$(includedir_SQ),644); \ - $(call do_install,kbuffer.h,$(DESTDIR)$(includedir_SQ),644) + $(call do_install,event-parse.h,$(includedir_SQ),644); \ + $(call do_install,event-utils.h,$(includedir_SQ),644); \ + $(call do_install,trace-seq.h,$(includedir_SQ),644); \ + $(call do_install,kbuffer.h,$(includedir_SQ),644) install: install_lib -- 2.11.0