commit 0830717080a925c537339733954a56ad1b36b663 parent 6587e3e8ae78d38e96d26a2788ccb6f9e905bf0c Author: Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 12:53:37 +0000 Mention --enable-absolute-paths in INSTALL Diffstat:
| M | INSTALL | | | 12 | ++++++++++++ |
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diff --git 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 ------------------