[Slackbuilds-users] addition for faq or howto

Didier Spaier didier at slint.fr
Fri May 18 08:54:10 UTC 2018


Hello,

Le 18/05/2018 à 07:21, B Watson a écrit :

> Proposed text to add to the end of "Step 2 - Read the README":
> 
> ---cut-here---
> If the README mentions any options controlled by environment variables,
> you can set these options now by running:
> 
>    export VARIABLE=value
> 
> For instance, if the README says you can build against SDL 2.0 by setting
> SDL2=yes in the environment, you would type:
> 
>   export SDL2=yes
> 
> If there are multiple options, you can use multiple export commands.
> 
> If you're unsure, don't set any variables here. In most cases, the
> SlackBuild maintainer has made the default behaviour (no options) the
> most common or most useful way to build the package.
> ---cut-here---

Yes, that would certainly help users not acquainted with shell scripting
and I assume there are many.

Greetings,

Didier


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