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authorTushar Teredesai <tushar@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-02-10 16:29:05 +0000
committerTushar Teredesai <tushar@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-02-10 16:29:05 +0000
commitadb78ee9870fee714b2c898b46cb137340fdc050 (patch)
treee4c309180ab485c4de76409cf0f323638bbc984b /kde/kde-intro.xml
parent0a3b11df1c4f1b67007770b2fc1a598aa3424236 (diff)
Added DO_NOT_COMPILE env var to KDE
git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@680 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0
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@@ -30,4 +30,17 @@ this option may cause swapping and significantly slow compilation.</para>
where the xx is a two to five letter code for the country covered. We
do not cover the installation of these packages here.</para>
+<para>All the KDE packages comprise of various components. The default is to
+install most of the components. If specific components are to be eliminated, the
+official way is to set the variable <userinput>DO_NOT_COMPILE</userinput>.
+This comes in handy when there are problems compiling a particular
+component.</para>
+
+<para><screen><userinput>DO_NOT_COMPILE="component1 component2" \
+./configure --prefix=/opt/kde...</userinput></screen></para>
+
+<para>The core KDE pacakges also honor this variable, but omitting components
+from the core packages is not advisable since it may result in an
+incomplete KDE installation.</para>
+
</partintro>