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authorLaurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org>2016-10-25 12:53:47 +0000
committerLaurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org>2016-10-25 12:53:47 +0000
commitf510d626ae24e1d85beb730e9faecce263fcff62 (patch)
tree9109f3ff01a36f0066d34418542683e6a30cb443
parentab19a03721153149eec9580e33550d628cb19446 (diff)
downloads6-portable-utils-f510d626ae24e1d85beb730e9faecce263fcff62.tar.xz
Mention --enable-absolute-paths in INSTALL
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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
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@@ -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
------------------