[Slackbuilds-users] sbotools: multiline build options

[fourtysixandtwo]

Those instructions are only for use in another slackbuild, they are
not build options for python3-setuptools-opt so you can just ignore
them.

Cheers

On Sun, May 24, 2026 at 4:41 PM J. Milgram via SlackBuilds-users
<slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org> wrote:
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> Dumb question. Where I see something like this in a Slackbuild README:
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> Add the following before the python3 build commands in your
> Slackbuild to use this version over the stock one in 15.0:
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> PYVER=$(python3 -c 'import sys; print("%d.%d" % sys.version_info[:2])')
> export PYTHONPATH=/opt/python$PYVER/site-packages
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> ... sboinstall and sboupgrade will say "It looks like python3-setuptools-opt has options; would you like to set
> any when the slackbuild is run?"
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> All good. I say "y" and then the question is how to type this in.
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> First, I presume it's entered without the "export" builtin:
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> PYVER=<whatever>
> PYTHONPATH=/opt/python$PYVER/site-packages
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> ... Else I get a "not a valid identifier" bash error apparently due to the script attempting: "export PYTHONPATH=<path> foo.Slackbuild" and there's no "foo.Slackbuild" to export.
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> Other question is, how to enter the lines at the sboinstall prompt: one at a time, separated by <return>,  or both in one line, separated by a semicolon?
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> I've been "cheating" and entering only the second line, as PYTHONPATH=/opt/python3.9/site-packages, because I know I'm running 3.9. However, still curious how multiline input is envisioned to work.
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> thanks!
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> Judah
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