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Clarify what kind of variable we're talking about #3603

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@Newbytee Newbytee commented Mar 6, 2020

Make it clearer that you should set an environment variable and not something else.

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aeikum commented Mar 6, 2020

Sort of. It's actually a make variable, so you can also specify it like make build_name=blah redist. As you say, you can also set it in the environment. There's more info about how make fills in its variables here: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Values.html#Values

The help target in the Makefile makes this a little more clear, maybe there's a good way to update the README to match.

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Newbytee commented Mar 6, 2020

How does that sound?

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@@ -66,7 +66,9 @@ targets to build Proton:
`make install` - This will install Proton into your user's Steam directory.
You may need to restart the Steam client to see it. The tool's name in the
Steam client will be based on the currently checked out branch of Proton. You
can override this name using the `build_name` variable.
can override this name using the `build_name` make variable, which can be set
via an evironment variable or an argument to the make command

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Thank you, I'll fix that.

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Cheers! 😄

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