use DESTDIR in Makefile #6
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I wish to package this program for a distribution, and the build system for said distribution requires that package files are placed in a custom destination directory. it's general makefile convention to use
DESTDIRininstallanduninstallfor staged installs such as this, and doing this shouldn't affect the normal way of compiling and installing on all operating systems.additionally, I added
install -m 775 -d $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/binsuch that the packaging build is able toinstallthe files to thebindirectory.If this pr gets accepted, it would also be neat to have these same changes in all the other projects that use this build system so that I can package them as well (I can create PRs for these too if it'd be desired)