From f612d34e66786601be227ac5f9feaa50f6f611ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Awlexus Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2018 19:22:35 +0200 Subject: Mentioned the TMP_DIR variable --- README.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 3c9ab83..3a87498 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -458,6 +458,11 @@ after activating a kerl installation of Erlang/OTP. Here is an example of # compilation options KERL_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS="--disable-native-libs --enable-vm-probes --with-dynamic-trace=dtrace --with-ssl=/usr/local --with-javac --enable-hipe --enable-kernel-poll --with-wx-config=/usr/local/bin/wxgtk2u-2.8-config --without-odbc --enable-threads --enable-sctp --enable-smp-support" + +In case you cannot access the default directory for temporary files (`/tmp`) or simply want them somewhere else, you can also provide your own directory with the variable `TMP_DIR` + + export TMP_DIR=/your/custom/temporary/dir + #### Building documentation Prior to kerl 1.0, kerl always downloaded prepared documentation from erlang.org. Now if `KERL_BUILD_DOCS=yes` is set, kerl will build the man pages and HTML -- cgit v1.2.3