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diff --git a/libraries/skalibs/README b/libraries/skalibs/README index c601481353..909a34f220 100644 --- a/libraries/skalibs/README +++ b/libraries/skalibs/README @@ -1,21 +1,21 @@ skalibs is a package centralizing the free software / open source C development files used for building all software at skarnet.org: it -contains essentially general-purpose libraries. You will need to -install skalibs if you plan to build skarnet.org software. The point -is that you won't have to download and compile big libraries, and care -about portability issues, everytime you need to build a package: do it -only once. +contains essentially general-purpose libraries. You will need to install +skalibs if you plan to build skarnet.org software. The point is that you +won't have to download and compile big libraries, and care about +portability issues, everytime you need to build a package: do it only +once. skalibs can also be used as a sound basic start for C development. -There are a lot of general-purpose libraries out there; but if your -main goal is to produce small and secure C code with a focus on system +There are a lot of general-purpose libraries out there; but if your main +goal is to produce small and secure C code with a focus on system programming, skalibs might be for you. NOTE: -Upstream recommends building skarnet.org softwares with static libraries -as most of skarnet.org softwares are small enough that using shared -libraries are generally not worth using. Therefore, the SlackBuild -script will only build the static libraries by default. +Upstream recommends building skarnet.org software with static libraries, +as most of skarnet.org software are small enough that shared libraries +are generally not worth using. Therefore, this SlackBuild script will +only build the static libraries by default. If you want to also build the shared libraries, pass BUILD_SHARED=yes environment variable to the script like below: @@ -28,5 +28,13 @@ libraries and not the static ones, you can do something like BUILD_SHARED=yes BUILD_STATIC=no ./skalibs.SlackBuild -If you just want to build and use skarnet.org softwares, building only +If you just want to build and use skarnet.org software, building only the static libraries should be sufficient. + +Also, the execvep() function from skalibs (used by all skarnet.org +software) has a default executable search path that will be used if the +PATH environment variable is undefined. The default is /usr/bin:/bin. +Pass DEF_PATH=some:path:list to the script if you want to change it, +e.g., + + DEF_PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin ./skalibs.SlackBuild |