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authorLaurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org>2016-10-25 12:53:37 +0000
committerLaurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org>2016-10-25 12:53:37 +0000
commit0830717080a925c537339733954a56ad1b36b663 (patch)
tree1bf56031499c0ea0a2bac741c7533357cdd77d59
parent6587e3e8ae78d38e96d26a2788ccb6f9e905bf0c (diff)
downloads6-0830717080a925c537339733954a56ad1b36b663.tar.xz
Mention --enable-absolute-paths in INSTALL
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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
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--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -153,6 +153,18 @@ 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
------------------