[gentoo-commits] gentoo commit in xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook: hb-working-variables.xml

[gentoo-commits] gentoo commit in xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook: hb-working-variables.xml

[Sven Vermeulen (swift)]

swift       12/06/29 15:41:54

  Modified:             hb-working-variables.xml
  Log:
  Fix bug #414801 - Add blurb about COLON_SEPARATED and SPACE_SEPARATED. Thanks to "lynx" for reporting and suggesting the fix

Revision  Changes    Path
1.23                 xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-variables.xml

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diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-variables.xml?r1=1.22&r2=1.23

Index: hb-working-variables.xml
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RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-variables.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.22
retrieving revision 1.23
diff -u -r1.22 -r1.23
--- hb-working-variables.xml	19 May 2007 04:13:46 -0000	1.22
+++ hb-working-variables.xml	29 Jun 2012 15:41:54 -0000	1.23
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 <!-- The content of this document is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license -->
 <!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 -->
 
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-variables.xml,v 1.22 2007/05/19 04:13:46 nightmorph Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-variables.xml,v 1.23 2012/06/29 15:41:54 swift Exp $ -->
 
 <sections>
 
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@
 variables.
 </abstract>
 
-<version>1.16</version>
-<date>2007-05-18</date>
+<version>2</version>
+<date>2012-06-29</date>
 
 <section>
 <title>Environment Variables?</title>
@@ -231,14 +231,22 @@
 
 <p>
 The concatenation of variables does not always happen, only with the following
-variables: <c>KDEDIRS</c>, <c>PATH</c>, <c>LDPATH</c>, <c>MANPATH</c>,
+variables: <c>ADA_INCLUDE_PATH</c>, <c>ADA_OBJECTS_PATH</c>, <c>CLASSPATH</c>, 
+<c>KDEDIRS</c>, <c>PATH</c>, <c>LDPATH</c>, <c>MANPATH</c>,
 <c>INFODIR</c>, <c>INFOPATH</c>, <c>ROOTPATH</c>, <c>CONFIG_PROTECT</c>,
-<c>CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK</c>, <c>PRELINK_PATH</c> and <c>PRELINK_PATH_MASK</c>.
+<c>CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK</c>, <c>PRELINK_PATH</c>, <c>PRELINK_PATH_MASK</c>,
+<c>PKG_CONFIG_PATH</c> and <c>PYTHONPATH</c>. 
 For all other variables the latest defined value (in alphabetical order of the
 files in <path>/etc/env.d</path>) is used.
 </p>
 
 <p>
+You can add more variables into this list of concatenate-variables by adding the
+variable name to either <c>COLON_SEPARATED</c> or <c>SPACE_SEPARATED</c>
+variables (also inside an env.d file).
+</p>
+
+<p>
 When you run <c>env-update</c>, the script will create all environment variables
 and place them in <path>/etc/profile.env</path> (which is used by
 <path>/etc/profile</path>). It will also extract the information from the