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| author | Matt McClure <matt.mcclure@mapmyfitness.com> | 2013-05-29 00:59:44 +0400 |
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| committer | Domenic Denicola <domenic@domenicdenicola.com> | 2013-06-02 04:56:46 +0400 |
| commit | 6ef60235f10a4caeac2038844fe9e1489d9aaf7d (patch) | |
| tree | b9945493d5b41693c07c60beb30608579c15990d | |
| parent | 365cb716404c36dfa4f5074cbc5278c6a5f76880 (diff) | |
doc: Mention --nodedir in npm install documentation
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/cli/install.md | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/install.js | 2 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/cli/install.md b/doc/cli/install.md index c4d9ba649..44885f318 100644 --- a/doc/cli/install.md +++ b/doc/cli/install.md @@ -171,6 +171,9 @@ any binaries the package might contain. The `--no-shrinkwrap` argument, which will ignore an available shrinkwrap file and use the package.json instead. +The `--nodedir=/path/to/node/source` argument will allow npm to find the +node source code so that npm can compile native modules. + See `npm-config(1)`. Many of the configuration params have some effect on installation, since that's most of what npm does. diff --git a/lib/install.js b/lib/install.js index 50ba5ebc5..839b57b36 100644 --- a/lib/install.js +++ b/lib/install.js @@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ install.usage = "npm install" + "\nIf no argument is supplied and ./npm-shrinkwrap.json is " + "\npresent, installs dependencies specified in the shrinkwrap." + "\nOtherwise, installs dependencies from ./package.json." + + "\n\nOptions + + "\n\n--nodedir=/path/to/node/source" install.completion = function (opts, cb) { // install can complete to a folder with a package.json, or any package. |