On Thu, Feb 08, 2024 at 08:14:05PM +0100, Samuel Tardieu wrote:
> On systems that do not use the FHS, such as NixOS, the `install` program is not
> located in `/usr/bin/` as its location is dynamic.
> 
> `dtc` can be easily installed on such systems by using the `install` program
> available in the `$PATH` with:
> 
>     make PREFIX=… INSTALL=install
> 
> However, this becomes more difficult when `dtc` is being compiled as part of a
> larger toolchain, as the toolchain build scripts will not spontaneously pass
> such an argument on the command line. This happens for example when `dtc` is
> build as a part of the RTEMS build system.
> 
> By not hardcoding a predefined path for `install`, as is done for other
> executables, `dtc` will allow the one in the `$PATH` to be used.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net>

Applied, thanks.

> ---
>  Makefile | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 10a56d4..f1f0ab3 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ SWIG = swig
>  PKG_CONFIG ?= pkg-config
>  PYTHON ?= python3
>  
> -INSTALL = /usr/bin/install
> +INSTALL = install
>  INSTALL_PROGRAM = $(INSTALL)
>  INSTALL_LIB = $(INSTALL)
>  INSTALL_DATA = $(INSTALL) -m 644

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