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authorLaurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org>2016-10-25 12:53:44 +0000
committerLaurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org>2016-10-25 12:53:44 +0000
commitae4c4af46b33af5e35ca594416a58e5be52cd48a (patch)
treeca9a04e8cc9a3fc91799c60f9c650f8e5797681c
parent75dc63bf8fcc423df1fd74fb8bbb9e0956fe70fc (diff)
downloads6-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
------------------