make install DESTDIR=./relative/path fails

The following works as expected:

$ make install DESTDIR=$PWD/image

however when using a relative target path it fails:

$ make install DESTDIR=./image
...
"inplace/bin/ghc-cabal" install "./image/usr/local/lib/ghc-7.0.1/ghc"
 "./image/usr/local/lib/ghc-7.0.1/ghc-pkg"
 "strip" "./image/usr/local/lib/ghc-7.0.1" libraries/ghc-prim dist-install
 './image' '/usr/local' '/usr/local/lib/ghc-7.0.1'
 '/usr/local/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries' NO  
ghc-cabal:
make[1]: *** [install_packages] Error 1
make: *** [install] Error 2

The ghc-cabal command clearly fails, but no error message (other than "ghc-cabal:") is produced.

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Trac field	Value
Version	7.0.1
Type	Bug
TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	normal
Resolution	Unresolved
Component	Build System
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