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| author | Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org> | 2016-10-25 12:53:35 +0000 |
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| committer | Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org> | 2016-10-25 12:53:35 +0000 |
| commit | c765317a08319a05e3c83fcd51027b1e62ecc242 (patch) | |
| tree | 22c5db838a6b053ee9abdc0ddd3b07691540dd95 /INSTALL | |
| parent | ac965cabbe882c0211a25423d9387588c3550c89 (diff) | |
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Mention --enable-absolute-paths in INSTALL
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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 0044aab..727e977 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -150,6 +150,18 @@ behaviour is to check the pointed file's timestamp and not the symlink's timestamp. +* Absolute pathnames + ------------------ + + You may want to use fixed absolute pathnames even if you're not +following the slashpackage convention: for instance, the Nix packaging +system prefers calling binaries with immutable paths rather than rely on +PATH resolution. If you are in that case, use the --enable-absolute-paths +option to configure. This will ensure that programs calling binaries from +this package will call them with their full installation path (in bindir) +without relying on a PATH search. + + * Out-of-tree builds ------------------ |