From 36ecd14e84ea759f0336ddc60e20fa02290f38f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: giraffedata Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2023 21:51:20 +0000 Subject: Document new COMPILED_BY environment variable git-svn-id: http://svn.code.sf.net/p/netpbm/code/trunk@4567 9d0c8265-081b-0410-96cb-a4ca84ce46f8 --- doc/INSTALL | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/INSTALL') 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 -------------------- -- cgit 1.4.1