4 Jun
2010
4 Jun
'10
1:42 a.m.
On 04/06/10 10:25, Dan McGee wrote:
On Thursday, June 3, 2010, Allan McRae<allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
Can anyone think of an actual use of $startdir in PKGBUILDs?
It is used in VCS builds on occasion as the location of the dowloaded repo so that buildin clean (wiping out src/) doesn't force you to re-clone or whatever.
That is indeed a good usage. We will keep it then! I suppose a big push in Arch to replace $startdir usage will remind people once again not to use $startdir/{src,pkg}. Allan