Define install and uninstall targets
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These targets are useful for moving the Gearsystem executable into a directory located on PATH. These targets aim to adhere to [Makefile Conventions][1], but have stripped those features that are unnecessary, given the only output is a single executable. This has been defined in a separate includable Makefile as these targets tend to be only applicable to Linux builds. Other distributions may include this as well if it is applicable. [1]: <https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Makefile-Conventions>
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make installcommand is pretty useful for Linux machines to ensure that the built executable is available on thePATHdirectory, so this pull request aims to add theinstallanduninstalltargets to support this.I have attempted to adhere to the Makefile Conventions as closely as possible (excluding those unnecessary for this project) which includes defaulting the installation to
/usr/local/gearsystemand allowing this to be customisable withDESTDIRandprefix(e.g.make install prefix="/app/bin"to install the application to/app/bin/gearsystem).The most notable use of this is to make automated packaging systems (such as flatpak-builder) much cleaner as they will only need to specify
make installwith appropriate arguments.I have included these targets in a separate file—
Makefile.install—as they are not applicable to every operating system; mostly just to Linux. I'm happy to add it to others if they are applicable, I'm just not that familiar with them.