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authorWim Muskee <wimmuskee@gmail.com>2016-11-17 20:46:35 +0100
committerGöktürk Yüksek <gokturk@gentoo.org>2016-11-30 00:25:12 -0500
commit7aaea52be77d25a4adad322627d79e1d699330b5 (patch)
treecfd30edc0d4c74059157e4db9fd5c69e547a1cf1
parentebuild-writing/file-format: add a reference to versionator.eclass #460028 (diff)
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function-reference/install-functions: differentiate doexe and dobin better
Gentoo-Bug: 586632
-rw-r--r--function-reference/install-functions/text.xml8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/function-reference/install-functions/text.xml b/function-reference/install-functions/text.xml
index fec68ba..614a8df 100644
--- a/function-reference/install-functions/text.xml
+++ b/function-reference/install-functions/text.xml
@@ -99,7 +99,9 @@ the first is the source name, the second the name to use when installing.
<c>dobin</c>
</ti>
<ti>
- Install a binary
+ Install a binary into <c>/usr/bin</c>, set the file mode to 0755
+ and set the ownership to superuser or its equivalent on the
+ system or installation at hand.
</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
@@ -139,7 +141,9 @@ the first is the source name, the second the name to use when installing.
<c>doexe</c>
</ti>
<ti>
- Install an executable
+ Install an executable into the location provided by <c>exeinto</c>,
+ by default with mode 0755 or with the install options set by
+ <c>exeopts</c>
</ti>
</tr>
<tr>