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howtos:misc:anatomy_of_a_slackbuild [2020/01/05 16:26 (UTC)] – [Anatomy Of a Slackbuild] captain_sensiblehowtos:misc:anatomy_of_a_slackbuild [2020/01/05 16:49 (UTC)] (current) – [Anatomy Of a Slackbuild] captain_sensible
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-We can however pick out key words that help to make sense of it. "findis a powerful command that has around 50 options. It basically does what it says on the can but with the -print0 option separates what it finds with "\000"  - in a word NULL. The "|" or pipe is used to pass the results of a command to anotherin this case xargs with a flag -0. Which is for xargs to accept input that has /000 between them. ELF is is Executable & Linkable Format.+We can however pick out key words that are commands and that can help to make some sense of it. 
 +indlocated at /usr/bin/find is a powerful utility  that has around 50 options. It basically does what it says on the can.With the -print0 option it separates what it finds with "\000"  - in a word NULL.  
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 +The "|" or pipe is used to pass the results of a command to another;in this case xargs which has a flag -0. This option  is for xargs to accept input that has /000 between them. ELF is is Executable & Linkable Format.
  
 To give a succinct answer the two lines are removing debugging symbols and other unnecessary stuff to make the binaries smaller, faster and take up less memory. To give a succinct answer the two lines are removing debugging symbols and other unnecessary stuff to make the binaries smaller, faster and take up less memory.
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-Here we are preparing a directory which will be called "latex2html-2019.2" into  /usr/doc. This is so we an put relevant documentation into a directory relevantly called so that a user can access documentation on the package.+Here we are preparing a directory which will be called "latex2html-2019.2" located at  /usr/doc. This is so we an put relevant documentation into a directory relevantly calledso that a user can access documentation on the package.
 The next lines put files such as  README.md into the /usr/doc/latex2html-2019.2 directory. The next lines put files such as  README.md into the /usr/doc/latex2html-2019.2 directory.
  
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-That line goes back to the original directory that Latex2html.SlackBuild was run from ( i previosly quoted Desktop) opens up the SlackBuild with cat command and copies it to the documentation directory.  +That line goes back to the original directory that Latex2html.SlackBuild was run from ( i previously quoted Desktop) opens up the SlackBuild with "cat"  command and copies it to the documentation directory.  
-Now before I submitted latex2html to slackbuilds obviously I did some trsting and found that when the package is installed a fairly comprensive output could be seen just using +Now before I submitted latex2html to slackbuilds obviously I did some testing and found that when the package was installed it had a fairly comprehensive output of what it could do just using:  
 <code> <code>
 $ latex2html --help $ latex2html --help
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- --- //[[wiki:user:captain_sensible|andy brookes]] 2019/12/28 19:28 (UTC)//+ --- //[[wiki:user:captain_sensible|andy brookes]] 2020/01/05 16:29 (UTC)//
  
-//If you teach maths it doesn't stop you  embedding a little English.  +//If you teach maths it doesn't stop you  embedding a little English.//  
  
  
 +Blank slackbuild templates can be obtained from : [[https://slackbuilds.org/templates/]]
  
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