remove unused variable

[simgrid.git] / docs / source / Installing_SimGrid.rst

diff --git a/docs/source/Installing_SimGrid.rst b/docs/source/Installing_SimGrid.rst
index c58f470e350eb321ccde2a928a5164349cdf51b8..477b53ed9a7ecae3531fbdd1aef9126a6742f395 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/source/Installing_SimGrid.rst
+++ b/docs/source/Installing_SimGrid.rst
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ existing targets are not really for public consumption so don't worry
 if some do not work for you.
 
 - **make**: Build the core of SimGrid that gets installed, but not any example.
-- **make tests**: Build the tests and examples.
+- **make examples**: Build the examples, which are needed by the tests.
 - **make simgrid**: Build only the SimGrid library. Not any example nor the helper tools.
 - **make s4u-comm-pingpong**: Build only this example (works for any example)
 - **make python-bindings**: Build the Python bindings
@@ -424,3 +424,17 @@ simgrid without downloading the source with pip:
 .. code-block:: console
 
   $ pip install simgrid
+
+If you installed SimGrid to a non-standard directory (such as ``/opt/simgrid`` as advised earlier), you should tell python where
+to find the libraries as follows (notice the elements suffixed to the configured prefix).
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+  $ PYTHONPATH="/opt/simgrid/lib/python3/dist-packages" LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/simgrid/lib" python your_script.py
+
+You can add those variables to your bash profile to not specify it each time by adding these lines to your ``~/.profile``:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+  export PYTHONPATH="$PYTHONPATH:/opt/simgrid/lib/python3/dist-packages"
+  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$PYTHONPATH:/opt/simgrid/lib"