[Slackbuilds-users] misc/po4a: is `su -' requirement only about kpsewhich?

[Willy Sudiarto Raharjo]

> In misc/po4a README it says:
> 
> "WARNING: run po4a.SlackBuild as root (su -) not with only root
> privileges (su), otherwise test #24 will fail."
> 
> I did some tests and it seems that it's enough to add
> /usr/share/texmf/bin/ directory to $PATH for test #24 to pass.  The
> warning is here because in standard Slackware setup this directory
> which contains kpsewich is added to $PATH by /etc/profile.d/tetex.sh.
> I think that current warning is quite uninformative and it only hides
> the real reason why test #24 fails without `su -'.  It could it be
> improved, for example:
> 
> "WARNING: run po4a.SlackBuild as root (su -) not with only root
> privileges (su) to have /usr/share/texmf/bin/kpsewhich in $PATH,
> otherwise test #24 will fail."

It's already written in the HOWTO

https://slackbuilds.org/howto/#su
some scripts will fail if we use normal su instead of su -


-- 
Willy Sudiarto Raharjo

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