6.4. The Easy Primaries
This section describes the common primaries that are relatively easy to understand; the next section discusses the more complicated ones.
| DATA | This is the easiest primary to understand. A macro of this type lists a number of files that are installed verbatim. These files can appear either in the source directory or the build directory. |
| HEADERS | Macros of this type list header files. These are separate from DATA macros because this allows for extra error checking in some cases. |
| SCRIPTS | This is used for executable scripts (interpreted programs). These differ from DATA because they are installed with different permissions and because they have the program name transform applied to them (for example, the '--program-transform-name' ... |
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