From f510d626ae24e1d85beb730e9faecce263fcff62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Laurent Bercot Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 12:53:47 +0000 Subject: Mention --enable-absolute-paths in INSTALL --- INSTALL | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'INSTALL') diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 918ce6d..7c00981 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -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 ------------------ -- cgit v1.2.3