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diff --git a/doc/manual.cli b/doc/manual.cli index 4f057f9..e7e61c0 100644 --- a/doc/manual.cli +++ b/doc/manual.cli @@ -2388,7 +2388,8 @@ values can be used to specify auxiliary configurations that provide additional components which are required for building or testing a package and that are impossible or impractical to provide as part of the build configuration itself. For example, a package may need access to a suitably configured -database, such as PostgreSQL, in order to run its tests. +database, such as PostgreSQL, in order to run its tests. Currently no more +than \c{9} auxiliary configurations can be specified. The \i{config} value is a filesystem wildcard patterns which is matched against the auxiliary configuration names (which are in turn derived from @@ -2438,24 +2439,24 @@ DATABASE_NAME=test \ If the auxiliary configuration is specified as \c{build-auxiliary-<name>}, -then capitalized \i{name}_ is used as a prefix in the environment variables -corresponding to the machine. For example, for the auxiliary configurations -specified as: +then capitalized and sanitized \i{name}_ is used as a prefix in the +environment variables corresponding to the machine. For example, for the +auxiliary configurations specified as: \ -build-auxiliary-pgsql: *-postgresql_* -build-auxiliary-mysql: *-mysql_* +build-auxiliary-pg-sql: *-postgresql_* +build-auxiliary-my-sql: *-mysql_* \ The environment variables could be: \ -PGSQL_DATABASE_HOST=192.168.0.1 -PGSQL_DATABASE_PORT=5432 +PG_SQL_DATABASE_HOST=192.168.0.1 +PG_SQL_DATABASE_PORT=5432 ... -MYSQL_DATABASE_HOST=192.168.0.2 -MYSQL_DATABASE_PORT=3306 +MY_SQL_DATABASE_HOST=192.168.0.2 +MY_SQL_DATABASE_PORT=3306 ... \ |