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| author | Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org> | 2016-10-25 12:53:37 +0000 |
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| committer | Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org> | 2016-10-25 12:53:37 +0000 |
| commit | 0830717080a925c537339733954a56ad1b36b663 (patch) | |
| tree | 1bf56031499c0ea0a2bac741c7533357cdd77d59 | |
| parent | 6587e3e8ae78d38e96d26a2788ccb6f9e905bf0c (diff) | |
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Mention --enable-absolute-paths in INSTALL
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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index b0c1f17..4f0e1e5 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -153,6 +153,18 @@ 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 ------------------ |