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Note that for many builds, you will need to have a true login shell in order to have a correctly populated environment.
Among other things, /usr/share/texmf/bin will not be in your PATH if you simply do "su" -- therefore,
you will need to either use "su -" when switching to root, or source the /etc/profile script after doing "su",
or perhaps modifying /root/.bashrc to include necessary PATH elements.
If you become root using the "su" command instead of "su -" you will not have a full root shell environment. The texi2html program will not be found, which means the man pages will not be generated, which means there will not be a "/tmp/SBo/package-ffmpeg/usr/man" directory and the SlackBuild script will fail.
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