Building for Your Language

Make

This is a common pattern.

make --jobs {{ hw.concurrency }}
make prefix={{ prefix }} install

Moustaches: hw.concurrency is the number of CPU cores, prefix is the path to the package install location.

Generic Scripts (Bash/Perl/Python/Ruby/etc)

You might need to mkdir {{prefix}}/bin. Move files, don't copy. For example:

mkdir {{prefix}}/bin
mv script {{prefix}}/bin

Change the first line (shebang line) to? #!/usr/bin/env perl?