diff -Nru alien.orig/Makefile.PL alien/Makefile.PL
--- alien.orig/Makefile.PL	Wed May 31 16:05:29 2000
+++ alien/Makefile.PL	Wed May 31 16:08:25 2000
@@ -22,11 +22,11 @@
 	perl -i -pe "s/\@version\@/$(VER)/g" <alien.spec.in >alien.spec
 
 extra_install:
-	install -d $(PREFIX)/share/alien/patches \
-		   $(VARPREFIX)/var/lib/alien
-	cp -f patches/*.diff $(PREFIX)/share/alien/patches/
-	-rm -f $(PREFIX)/share/alien/patches/*.gz
-	gzip -qf9 $(PREFIX)/share/alien/patches/*
+	install -d $(DESTDIR)/$(PREFIX)/share/alien/patches \
+		   $(DESTDIR)/$(VARPREFIX)/var/lib/alien
+	cp -f patches/*.diff $(DESTDIR)/$(PREFIX)/share/alien/patches/
+	-rm -f $(DESTDIR)/$(PREFIX)/share/alien/patches/*.gz
+	gzip -qf9 $(DESTDIR)/$(PREFIX)/share/alien/patches/*
 
 alien:
 	perl -pe ' \