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@@ -147,6 +147,18 @@ 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 ------------------ |