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default values for environment variables

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Hi,

Is there a way to default a variable in binding.gyp yet allow a different user externally set a different value.

https://github.com/HDF-NI/hdf5.node/blob/master/binding.gyp#L3 Some people have a hard coded path to native dependencies while others like a more app packaged deployment and/or the ability to have more than one version installed

"hdf5_home_linux": "/usr/local"

How to keep a default yet make it adaptable for other choices?

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Created 8 years ago
Comments:6 (2 by maintainers)

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bnoordhuiscommented, Apr 28, 2016

For anyone coming here through a search engine, you can alternatively pass options through the GYP_DEFINES environment variable:

$ env GYP_DEFINES="name=value name2=value" npm install

That should work with any node-gyp version.

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m4heshdcommented, Nov 20, 2021

$ env GYP_DEFINES="name=value name2=value" npm install

Anybody know where’s the documentation for this? 🙄

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