frankly, I don't know. But looking at the code, I think that it's because make_master is called with dest set to vars->TMP_LIBDIR and fix_smartlink uses include_prefix directly.
/ Marek Habersack (Grendel)
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2002-09-20 17:47: Subject: Latest CVS of Pike 7.3 doesn't install - or is it just me?
And where is the fakeroot() call placed in the case of make_master?
/ Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!)