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| author | Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org> | 2016-10-25 12:53:44 +0000 |
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| committer | Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org> | 2016-10-25 12:53:44 +0000 |
| commit | ae4c4af46b33af5e35ca594416a58e5be52cd48a (patch) | |
| tree | ca9a04e8cc9a3fc91799c60f9c650f8e5797681c | |
| parent | 75dc63bf8fcc423df1fd74fb8bbb9e0956fe70fc (diff) | |
| download | s6-linux-utils-ae4c4af46b33af5e35ca594416a58e5be52cd48a.tar.xz | |
Mention --enable-absolute-paths in INSTALL
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@@ -145,6 +145,18 @@ 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 ------------------ |