This value is needed for reproducible builds. The reason is because $BUILDDIR changes its behavior depending on whether it is the same as $startdir, and the result is that we cannot know whether builddir is actually 'builddir' or 'builddir' + '/$pkgbase'. Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> --- scripts/makepkg.sh.in | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in index 2deb61da..f95f7168 100644 --- a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in +++ b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in @@ -643,6 +643,7 @@ write_buildinfo() { write_kv_pair "packager" "${PACKAGER}" write_kv_pair "builddate" "${SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH}" write_kv_pair "builddir" "${BUILDDIR}" + write_kv_pair "startdir" "${startdir}" write_kv_pair "buildenv" "${BUILDENV[@]}" write_kv_pair "options" "${OPTIONS[@]}" -- 2.24.0