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<!-- $NetBSD: help-devel.xml,v 1.3 2019/11/22 19:48:58 rillig Exp $ -->
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<chapter id="help-devel">
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<title>Getting help</title>
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<para>
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To get help when developing pkgsrc, the definitive source is this
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document, the pkgsrc guide. If you don't find anything here,
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there are alternatives:
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</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>
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The built-in pkgsrc help, which is available after bootstrapping
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pkgsrc. Run <command>bmake help topic=…</command> to get
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help for any topic, such as a variable name like
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<varname>BUILD_DEFS</varname>, a make target like
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<command>do-build</command>, a missing C or C++ function like
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<command>strcasecmp</command> or any other topic.</para>
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<para>The available help topics are listed in <xref
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linkend="help-topics" />.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem><para>
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To see the value of a single variable, run <command>bmake
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show-var VARNAME=<replaceable>X</replaceable></command>.
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</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>
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To see the values of the most common variables, run
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<command>bmake show-all</command>. These variables are grouped by
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topic. To see the variables for a single topic, run
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<command>bmake
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show-all-<replaceable>topic</replaceable></command>, for example
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<command>bmake show-all-fetch</command>.
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</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>
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The tech-pkg mailing list, to which
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<ulink url="https://www.NetBSD.org/mailinglists/#tech-pkg">you
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can subscribe</ulink> and then <ulink
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url="mailto:tech-pkg@NetBSD.org">ask your
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questions</ulink>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem><para>The #pkgsrc IRC channel, which is accessible
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<ulink url="https://webchat.freenode.net/">via a web browser</ulink>
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or by using a specialized chat program such as
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<ulink url="http://xchat.org/">XChat</ulink>.
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Pick any user name and join the channel #pkgsrc.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</chapter>
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