From 0830717080a925c537339733954a56ad1b36b663 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Laurent Bercot Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 12:53:37 +0000 Subject: Mention --enable-absolute-paths in INSTALL --- INSTALL | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index b0c1f17..4f0e1e5 100644 --- 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 ------------------ -- cgit v1.2.3