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Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2024 17:00:58 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Christian Heusel <christian@heusel.eu>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] tools/x86/kcpuid: Add missing dir via Makefile
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Lemme fix CC addresses too. :-\

On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 01:17:58PM +0200, Christian Heusel wrote:
> So far the Makefile just installed the csv into $(HWDATADIR)/cpuid.csv,
> which made it unaware about $DESTDIR. Add $DESTDIR to the install
> command and while we are at it also create the directory, should it not
> exist already. This eases the packaging of kcpuid and allows i.e. for
> the install on arch to look like this:
> 
>     make BINDIR=/usr/bin DESTDIR="$pkgdir" -C tools/arch/x86/kcpuid install

Stupid question: is DESTDIR something that distro packaging machinery
uses? Dunno, some Linux packaging standards thing or so?

I.e., I wanna make sure this as generic and as easy for packaging as
possible.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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