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authorLaurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org>2016-10-25 12:53:49 +0000
committerLaurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org>2016-10-25 12:53:49 +0000
commitcd1914aec0fd53226d3122ffcd8b9f2da03dd199 (patch)
tree8af2965ce87b8f1b1e26ec8185c55765a82a59ae /INSTALL
parenta2bd66d9a582df16c3a3e2aca12259035acba280 (diff)
downloads6-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
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