Meld and /usr/local

Meld is a visual diff merge and source control tool, I compiled but get when namcaping:
[ganlu@A meld]$ namcap meld-0.9.4.1-1.pkg.tar.gz
meld W: File (usr/local/) exists in a non-standard directory.
meld W: File (usr/local/bin/) exists in a non-standard directory.
meld W: File (usr/local/bin/meld) exists in a non-standard directory.
meld W: File (usr/local/lib/) exists in a non-standard directory.
meld W: File (usr/local/lib/meld/) exists in a non-standard directory.
I have set prefix=/usr in PKGBUILD, but it seems no luck.
#Contributor: ganlu <[email protected]>
pkgname=meld
pkgver=0.9.4.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Meld is a visual diff merge and source control tool."
url="http://meld.sf.net/"
license=GPL
depends=('python')
makedepends=('')
confilcts=()
backup=()
source=(http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/meld/0.9/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.bz2)
md5sum=('cd5f02e084529c581ce52a22647ca4dc')
build() {
cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
./configure --prefix=/usr
make || return 1
make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install
~
~
Thank you in advance.

Some time ago I also tried to make meld package and I had to do something like this to make it install in the proper directory
make prefix=/usr || return 1
make prefix=/usr install DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg
I know that's weird but it didn't want to work without these settings. I didn't investigated it further but I guess something was wrong in the meld makefile. I hope it's fixed now in the newest version.

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