What should Linux/Unix 'make install' consist of?

Question

I\'ve written a C++ program (command line, portable code) and I\'m trying to release a Linux version at the same time as the Windows version. I\'ve written a makefile as fol

Answer 1

In the simplest case you just copy the newly created executable into the /usr/local/bin path. Of course, it's usually more complicated than that.

Notice that most of these operations require special rights, which is why make install is usually invoked using sudo.