Dealing with hardcoded paths

[Lars Steinke <lss@ukl.uni-freiburg.de>]

Hi dear fellow developers,

surely some of you had to deal with source packages producing binaries which
contain hardcoded paths defined in the Makefile.

If I set up the Makefile to install into $DESTDIR as ususal, i.e. 
debian/tmp/usr I end up with wrong locations in binaries which call other
parts of the package e.g. in $HOME/debian/tmp/usr/lib/rt instead of 
/usr/lib/rt.

Now, I can´t really let the package roll itself out under /usr lest I
risk overwriting something, so am I to patch the binaries which are created
or what ?

Regards, 
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