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The macro was made to help installing broken packages that did not use DESTDIR correctly by overriding individual path variables (prefix, sysconfdir, ...). Newer rpm provides fixed make_install macro that calls make install with just the correct DESTDIR, however it is not available everywhere (e.g., RHEL 5 does not have it). On the other hand the make_install macro is simple and straightforward enough for us to use its expansion directly.
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>