Building from source: DESTDIR doesn't produce portable installation about aws-cli HOT 3 OPEN

The $prefix/bin/aws -> $prefix/lib/aws-cli/bin/aws symlink (and likewise for aws_completer)

The script interpreter of $prefix/lib/aws-cli/bin/aws (and likewise for aws_completer)
the script is being prepared in the same obligations and marks as used before formats.

Expected Behavior
The symlink created at $DESTDIR/$prefix/bin/aws should point to $prefix/lib/aws-cli/bin/aws.

The first line of $DESTDIR/$prefix/lib/aws-cli/bin/aws should be #!$prefix/lib/aws-cli/bin/python.

More generally, the contents of $DESTDIR should not themselves contain any references to $DESTDIR, so that it's possible to copy the contents of this directory to another machine's root filesystem (typically via a RPM/DEB/etc) and still end up with a working installation.

This code of conduct is still the in the initial stage so please do the needful for the coding ground formats and tempers.

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I also faced this issue when trying to build from src.

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For anyone looking towards a workaround for this issue until AWS fix it, you only need to redirect the symlinks and fix the shebangs to address the reference issue.

# Building package
build_dir="$(mktemp -d)"
target_dir="$(mktemp -d)"
tarball_uri="https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/archive/refs/tags/${awscli_version}.tar.gz"
# Download and extract tarball
curl -sL "${tarball_uri}" | tar -C "${build_dir}" -xz
# Configure and make install to target directory
(
        set -e
        cd "${build_dir}/aws-cli-${awscli_version}"
        export PYTHON="${python}"
        ./configure --prefix "/usr" --with-download-deps
        make
        make install DESTDIR="${target_dir}"
)

# Fix broken DESTDIR behaviour in aws-cli
for f in $(find "${target_dir}" -type l); do
        # Fix symlinks
        ln -sfn "$(readlink -f "${f}" | sed "s#${target_dir}##")" "${f}"
done
for f in $(grep -rl "${target_dir}" ${target_dir}); do
        # Fix shebangs
        sed -i "s|${target_dir}||g" $f
done

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