Is there an existing issue for this?

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Version

equal or higher than v1.17.2 and lower than v1.18.0

What happened?

When installing the cilium-cli the makefile is missing logic to allow changing of the BINDIR environment varable. The process is documented here, but does not work as documented:

https://github.com/cilium/cilium-cli/blob/main/README.md

BINDIR=~/.local/bin make install

How can we reproduce the issue?

1. git clone cilium project
2. cd cilium/cilium-cli
3. BINDIR=~/.local/bin make install

Cilium Version

cilium-cli: 1.18.0-pre.1-130-gbcbc27e917 compiled with go1.24.1 on darwin/arm64

Kernel Version

24.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 24.3.0: Thu Jan 2 20:24:16 PST 2025; root:xnu-11215.81.4~3/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 arm64

Kubernetes Version

Client Version: v1.32.1
Kustomize Version: v5.5.0
Server Version: v1.32.2

Regression

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Sysdump

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Relevant log output

Anything else?

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