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Naturally, Automake handles the details of actually installing your
program once it has been built. All PROGRAMS, SCRIPTS,
LIBRARIES, LISP, DATA and HEADERS are
automatically installed in the appropriate places.
Automake also handles installing any specified info and man pages.
Automake generates separate install-data and install-exec
targets, in case the installer is installing on multiple machines which
share directory structure—these targets allow the machine-independent
parts to be installed only once. The install target depends on
both of these targets.
Automake also generates an uninstall target, and an
installdirs target.
It is possible to extend this mechanism by defining an
install-exec-local or install-data-local target. If these
targets exist, they will be run at ‘make install’ time.
Variables using the standard directory prefixes ‘data’, ‘info’, ‘man’, ‘include’, ‘oldinclude’, ‘pkgdata’, or ‘pkginclude’ (eg ‘data_DATA’) are installed by ‘install-data’.
Variables using the standard directory prefixes ‘bin’, ‘sbin’, ‘libexec’, ‘sysconf’, ‘localstate’, ‘lib’, or ‘pkglib’ (eg ‘bin_PROGRAMS’) are installed by ‘install-exec’.
Any variable using a user-defined directory prefix with ‘exec’ in the name (eg ‘myexecbin_PROGRAMS’ is installed by ‘install-exec’. All other user-defined prefixes are installed by ‘install-data’.