Use DESTDIR for install prefix #200
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DESTDIR has a well established purpose https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/DESTDIR.html It is a suffix for all the files to be installed. And it is used by package managers who installs the files into some $tmpdir before creating a package. Change the build commands to follow this convention. Add BINDIR that does the same what previous did $DESTDIR.
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DESTDIR has a well established purpose
https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/DESTDIR.html
It is a suffix for all the files to be installed. And it is used by
package managers who installs the files into some $tmpdir before
creating a package.
Change the build commands to follow this convention.
Add BINDIR that does the same what previous did $DESTDIR.