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tools: allow separate component install w/ env var

Rodrigo Muino Tomonari requested to merge github/fork/rvagg/install-separate into master

Primary use cases are: headers tarball (previously using HEADERS_ONLY) and OS X installer so it has npm files separate from core node + header files. This is a component of #5656, a rework of the OS X installer, which now has a working checkbox to optionally install npm.

  • set NODE_INSTALL_NODE_ONLY for core node executable and associated extras (dtrace, systemtap, gdbinit, man page).
  • set NODE_INSTALL_HEADERS_ONLY for header files as required for compiling native addons, previously HEADERS_ONLY, used for creating the headers tarball for distribution.
  • set NODE_INSTALL_NPM_ONLY to install npm only, including executable symlink.

If none of these are set, install everything.

Options are mutually exclusive, run install.py multiple times to install multiple components.

/cc @nodejs/build @fhemberger

I'm also open to making this a semver-major change because of the change from HEADERS_ONLY to NODE_INSTALL_HEADERS_ONLY although I don't imagine anyone's actually using that in the wild (it's new and also pretty obscure for use outside of the Makefile).

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