Those instructions are only for use in another slackbuild, they are not build options for python3-setuptools-opt so you can just ignore them.
Cheers On Sun, May 24, 2026 at 4:41 PM J. Milgram via SlackBuilds-users <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Dumb question. Where I see something like this in a Slackbuild README: > > ========= > Add the following before the python3 build commands in your > Slackbuild to use this version over the stock one in 15.0: > > PYVER=$(python3 -c 'import sys; print("%d.%d" % sys.version_info[:2])') > export PYTHONPATH=/opt/python$PYVER/site-packages > ========= > > ... sboinstall and sboupgrade will say "It looks like python3-setuptools-opt > has options; would you like to set > any when the slackbuild is run?" > > All good. I say "y" and then the question is how to type this in. > > First, I presume it's entered without the "export" builtin: > > PYVER=<whatever> > PYTHONPATH=/opt/python$PYVER/site-packages > > ... Else I get a "not a valid identifier" bash error apparently due to the > script attempting: "export PYTHONPATH=<path> foo.Slackbuild" and there's no > "foo.Slackbuild" to export. > > Other question is, how to enter the lines at the sboinstall prompt: one at a > time, separated by <return>, or both in one line, separated by a semicolon? > > I've been "cheating" and entering only the second line, as > PYTHONPATH=/opt/python3.9/site-packages, because I know I'm running 3.9. > However, still curious how multiline input is envisioned to work. > > thanks! > > Judah > > ===== > [email protected] > 301-257-7069 > > > _______________________________________________ > SlackBuilds-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users > Archives - https://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ > FAQ - https://slackbuilds.org/faq/ > _______________________________________________ SlackBuilds-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users Archives - https://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ FAQ - https://slackbuilds.org/faq/
