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| author | Dominyk Tiller | 2016-09-14 17:59:20 +0100 |
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| committer | Dominyk Tiller | 2016-09-14 17:59:20 +0100 |
| commit | 3eb966c309798e733f6cc6546423d53b74c3d0b2 (patch) | |
| tree | 43655a83bbe2dfd90e5a59c22e9a42adf1779944 | |
| parent | f744cdbc81a4e5bc8f7d7bb1e5a0e3593846d002 (diff) | |
| download | brew-3eb966c309798e733f6cc6546423d53b74c3d0b2.tar.bz2 | |
Formula-Cookbook: detail build env less generically
| -rw-r--r-- | share/doc/homebrew/Formula-Cookbook.md | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/share/doc/homebrew/Formula-Cookbook.md b/share/doc/homebrew/Formula-Cookbook.md index 75a53f60f..ea5c3c221 100644 --- a/share/doc/homebrew/Formula-Cookbook.md +++ b/share/doc/homebrew/Formula-Cookbook.md @@ -110,9 +110,8 @@ to avoid conflicting with the system so sometimes formulae need to have environment variables set or special configuration flags passed to locate our OpenSSL. You can see this mechanism in the [clamav](https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/ae2206f3e5bb2a7c0065ae1b164d2d011b85858b/Formula/clamav.rb#L38) -formula. Usually this is unnecessary because when OpenSSL is specified -as a dependency Homebrew temporarily prepends the `$PATH` with that -prefix. +formula. Usually this is unnecessary because Homebrew sets up our [build environment](https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/fb3bec8d70d375a97554d4c3fed82ad2332b2191/Library/Homebrew/extend/ENV/super.rb) +to favour finding `keg_only` formulae first. Homebrew maintains a special [tap that provides other useful system duplicates](https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-dupes). |