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diff --git a/doc/INSTALL b/doc/INSTALL index c20d372e..2c6403ff 100644 --- a/doc/INSTALL +++ b/doc/INSTALL @@ -109,8 +109,8 @@ If you use the 'configure' program, be sure to edit config.mk _after_ you run 'configure', since 'configure' generates config.mk. -COMPILED-IN BUILD DATETIME --------------------------- +COMPILED-IN BUILD DATETIME AND USER +----------------------------------- By default, the Netpbm build system builds the datetime that you built it into libnetpbm, so the --version global command line option can display it. @@ -137,6 +137,13 @@ The name and meaning of the environment variable is taken from a standard described at https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/ on March 16, 2017. +Likewise, the Netpbm build system builds the identity of the party who did the +build in libnetpbm. This is normally a userid, the output of the 'whoami' +program, unless overridden by USER or LOGNAME environment variables. You can +also override 'whoami', USER, and LOGNAME with the COMPILED_BY environment +variable. This value is just for display, so it need not be a userid; any +single word that does not contain quotation marks is acceptable. + AUTOMATING THE BUILD -------------------- |