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opened 2026-05-05 11:37:40 -06:00 by gitea-mirror · 2 comments

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Originally created by @ghost on GitHub (Feb 10, 2017).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/jmcnamara/libxlsxwriter/issues/93

Originally assigned to: @jmcnamara on GitHub.

Now macOS has some system protection and even under root I cannot write to /usr.

There is, however, a special dir for installing custom libs, it is /usr/local.

So the make install on macOS should install everything to /usr/local instead of /usr.
I.e. to /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/include.

Originally created by @ghost on GitHub (Feb 10, 2017). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/jmcnamara/libxlsxwriter/issues/93 Originally assigned to: @jmcnamara on GitHub. Now macOS has some system protection and even under root I cannot write to `/usr`. There is, however, a special dir for installing custom libs, it is `/usr/local`. So the `make install` on macOS should install everything to `/usr/local` instead of `/usr`. I.e. to `/usr/local/lib` and `/usr/local/include`.

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2026-05-05 11:37:48 -06:00

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@jmcnamara commented on GitHub (Feb 13, 2017):

Hi,

Yes. Agreed. That would be better for Linux as well.

I also want to add a INSTALL_DIR or DESTDIR variable to allow the dir to be specified/overridden.

I'll add it in the next release.

Thanks for the suggestion.

John

@jmcnamara commented on GitHub (Feb 13, 2017): Hi, Yes. Agreed. That would be better for Linux as well. I also want to add a `INSTALL_DIR` or `DESTDIR` variable to allow the dir to be specified/overridden. I'll add it in the next release. Thanks for the suggestion. John

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2026-05-05 11:37:50 -06:00

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@jmcnamara commented on GitHub (Jun 25, 2017):

I've pushed a change to master so that files are installed to /usr/local by default. The installation dir can be overridden by using the INSTALL_DIR environmental variable:

INSTALL_DIR=/usr/third_party make install

Thanks for the suggestion.

@jmcnamara commented on GitHub (Jun 25, 2017): I've pushed a change to master so that files are installed to `/usr/local` by default. The installation dir can be overridden by using the `INSTALL_DIR` environmental variable: INSTALL_DIR=/usr/third_party make install Thanks for the suggestion.