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| author | Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org> | 2016-10-25 12:53:49 +0000 |
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| committer | Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org> | 2016-10-25 12:53:49 +0000 |
| commit | cd1914aec0fd53226d3122ffcd8b9f2da03dd199 (patch) | |
| tree | 8af2965ce87b8f1b1e26ec8185c55765a82a59ae | |
| parent | a2bd66d9a582df16c3a3e2aca12259035acba280 (diff) | |
| download | s6-rc-cd1914aec0fd53226d3122ffcd8b9f2da03dd199.tar.xz | |
Mention --enable-absolute-paths in INSTALL
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@@ -149,6 +149,18 @@ 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 ------------------ |