Tried opt too, same result: pacman: Build information: source code location : . prefix : /opt/local/pacman sysconfdir : /opt/local/pacman/etc conf file : /opt/local/pacman/etc/pacman.conf localstatedir : /opt/local/pacman/var database dir : /opt/local/pacman/var/lib/pacman/ cache dir : /opt/local/pacman/var/cache/pacman/pkg/ compiler : gcc -std=gnu99 preprocessor flags : compiler flags : -Wall -g -O2 library flags : -lm -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -lcrypto -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -larchive linker flags : Architecture : x86_64 Host Type : x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu File inode command : stat -c '%i %n' File owner command : stat -c '%u:%g' File mode command : stat -c '%a' Filesize command : stat -c %s In-place sed command : sed --follow-symlinks -i libalpm version : 10.0.2 libalpm version info : 10:2:0 pacman version : 5.0.2 using git version : no Directory and file information: root working directory : / package extension : .pkg.tar.gz source pkg extension : .src.tar.gz build script name : PKGBUILD template directory : /usr/share/makepkg-template Compilation options: Use libcurl : no Use GPGME : no Use OpenSSL : yes Run make in doc/ dir : no Doxygen support : no debug support : no extra warning flags : no use git version : no michaelpower@local-ic:~/Workspace/pacman-5.0.2$ ./src/pacman/ .deps/ .libs/ pacman po/ michaelpower@local-ic:~/Workspace/pacman-5.0.2$ ./src/pacman/pacman error: config file /usr/local/etc/pacman.conf could not be read: No such file or directory ---- On Tue, 06 Mar 2018 19:05:50 -0800 Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote ---- On 07/03/18 12:49, pacman-dev via pacman-dev wrote: > Hello Pacman Team, > > > > I was trying to build Pacman for installation into a custom folder. > > > > I downloaded the following pacman source code: > > https://sources.archlinux.org/other/pacman/pacman-5.0.2.tar.gz > > > > I then ran the following configure command: > > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/pacman/ --disable-doc --disable-shared > > > > After this is seems to be using --prefix for make install but not when building. The binaries assume a location of /usr/local. See below for details. How do I build pacman to run from a custom directory? > > Build information: source code location : . prefix : /usr/local/pacman sysconfdir : /usr/local/pacman/etc conf file : /usr/local/pacman/etc/pacman.conf localstatedir : /usr/local/pacman/var database dir : /usr/local/pacman/var/lib/pacman/ cache dir : /usr/local/pacman/var/cache/pacman/pkg/ $ ./src/pacman/pacman error: config file /usr/local/pacman/etc/pacman.conf could not be read: No such file or directory Looks fine to me. A