---
name: "limba-build"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "limba-devtools"
version: "0.5.6-2+b2"
release: "Debian 9 (Stretch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/limba-build"
---

# limba-build(1)

command-line tool for automated builds

## NAME

limba-build - command-line tool for automated builds

## SYNOPSIS

**limba-build** {**COMMAND**} \[**OPTIONS ...**\]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **limba-build** command.

**limba-build** is a tool to automate building Limba packages from source in an isolated chroot environment.

The tool is also able to create simple Limba package repositories and perform other tasks related to building Limba packages.

## OPTIONS

**run** *DIRECTORY*

Run the build process. limba-build will look for a lipkg/build.yml, build.yml or .travis.yml file containing build instructions in that order.

To build in a chroot environment, the *--chroot=* parameter needs to point to a directory containing an operating system as created by e.g. **debootstrap (8)** on Debian-based systems. If no chroot should be used, *--chroot=none* must be set instead.

**run-shell** *DIRECTORY*

Does exactly as the **run** command, but instead of running the commands necessary to build the software, it opens a interactive shell in the build environment.

This feature is very useful for debugging the build environment itself. The pre-build and post-build commands are run before and after opening the interactive shell, just as in a regular build.

**repo-init** *DIRECTORY*

Initialize empty Limba package repository in a local directory.

**repo-add** *FILENAME* *DIRECTORY*

Add a Limba package to a local repository.

- **--version**

  Display version number of limba-build

- **--verbose**

  Turn on verbose mode (this can be used for debugging).

## SEE ALSO

limba (1), lipkgen (1), chroot (8).

Additional documentation can be found on http://people.freedesktop.org/~mak/limba.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Matthias Klumpp \<matthias@tenstral.net\>.

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2014-2015 Matthias Klumpp\