However, that is what makepkg is being asked to do by a PKGBUILD. See it as an extra step over what the upstream installation procedure does; a kind of Arch-specific tweaking. Normally it’s the installation code — for example `make install` — that handles creation of all of the relevant directories, placing files and so on.
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