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| author | Mike Kestner <mkestner@gmail.com> | 2005-01-14 00:48:22 +0300 |
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| committer | Mike Kestner <mkestner@gmail.com> | 2005-01-14 00:48:22 +0300 |
| commit | dc247e003e4c68c8c68289f44f28dc4624fb52c5 (patch) | |
| tree | 5e62f87599f60d5f866cd5bd26ab24d0bbe9b193 /man | |
| parent | 39582fc9998e270bfb535d9424bb84eb73f1d893 (diff) | |
man page updates for gacutil
svn path=/trunk/mono/; revision=38900
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/gacutil.1 | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/man/gacutil.1 b/man/gacutil.1 index 853d0fbfc1d..05d9ff2b1e2 100644 --- a/man/gacutil.1 +++ b/man/gacutil.1 @@ -41,14 +41,14 @@ prefix/lib/mono with the name NAME, and a symlink is created from NAME/assembly_name to the assembly on the GAC. This is used so developers can reference a set of libraries at once. .Sp -The -root option is used by developers integrating this with automake -tools or packaging tools that require a prefix directory to be -specified. The root represents the "libdir" component of a prefix -(typically prefix/lib). +The -root option is used to specify the "libdir" value of an installation +prefix which differs from the prefix of the system GAC. +Typical automake usage is "-root $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)". +To access assemblies installed to a prefix other than the mono prefix, +it is necessary to set the MONO_GAC_PREFIX environment variable. .Sp -The -gacdir option is used to specify the GACs base directory. Once an -assembly has been installed to a non standard gacdir the MONO_GAC_PREFIX -environment variable must be used to access the assembly. +The -gacdir option is included for backward compatibility but is not +recommended for new code. Use the -root option instead. .Sp The -check_refs option is used to ensure that the assembly being installed into the GAC does not reference any non strong named |