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| author | Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org> | 2016-10-25 12:53:47 +0000 |
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| committer | Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org> | 2016-10-25 12:53:47 +0000 |
| commit | f510d626ae24e1d85beb730e9faecce263fcff62 (patch) | |
| tree | 9109f3ff01a36f0066d34418542683e6a30cb443 | |
| parent | ab19a03721153149eec9580e33550d628cb19446 (diff) | |
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Mention --enable-absolute-paths in INSTALL
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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 918ce6d..7c00981 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -133,6 +133,18 @@ 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 ------------------ |