Allan McRae wrote:
Magnus Therning wrote:
Allan McRae wrote: [..]
As a general rule, you never should use $startdir in a PKGBUILD.
Is that written down somewhere? It'd be nice to have a place to refer to when arguing some changes to PKGBUILDs.
man PKGBUILD: startdir was most often used in combination with /src or /pkg postfixes, but use of the srcdir and pkgdir variables is preferred.
The wording has been made even stronger about not using $startdir for the next pacman release.
Ah, excellent, I wasn't aware of the existence of that man-page. Another thing that I've been wondering about is the relationship between 'depends' and 'makedepends'. The description in the man-page is fairly clear, but just to check I'm wondering if it's correct to say that 1. a dependency should _never_ be mentioned in both 'depends' and 'makedepends'? 2. the packages required to build a package is the union of 'depends' and 'makedepends'? /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe