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doc: update BUILDING.md

* General copy-editing

* Move `[sudo] make install` step from general Unix build to own step

* Remove `make test-addons` as that is now covered by `make test`

* Standardize on `/path/to/foo` as used elsewhere in the doc

* Change `node -e` to `./node -e` to avoid using different node binary

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8398
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
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Rich Trott 8 years ago
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## Building Node.js
Depending on what platform or features you require the build process may
Depending on what platform or features you require, the build process may
differ slightly. After you've successfully built a binary, running the
test suite to validate that the binary works as intended is a good next step.
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* This step will install `gcc` and the related toolchain containing `make`
On FreeBSD and OpenBSD, you may also need:
* libexecinfo (FreeBSD and OpenBSD only)
* libexecinfo
To build Node.js:
```console
$ ./configure
$ make
$ [sudo] make install
```
If your Python binary is in a non-standard location or has a
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$ export PYTHON=/path/to/python
$ $PYTHON ./configure
$ make
$ [sudo] make install
```
To run the tests:
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$ make test
```
To run the native module tests:
```console
$ make test-addons
```
To run the npm test suite:
*note: to run the suite on node v4 or earlier you must first*
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If you have an existing Node.js you can build just the docs with:
```console
$ NODE=node make doc-only
$ NODE=/path/to/node make doc-only
```
(Where `node` is the path to your executable.)
To read the documentation:
```console
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To test if Node.js was built correctly:
```console
$ node -e "console.log('Hello from Node.js ' + process.version)"
$ ./node -e "console.log('Hello from Node.js ' + process.version)"
```
To install this version of Node.js into a system directory:
```console
$ [sudo] make install
```

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