makepkg only considers global {make,}depends when checking require packages are installed before building. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae --- doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt b/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt index 4ff3b02..e410481 100644 --- a/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt +++ b/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt @@ -402,6 +402,11 @@ each split package's packaging function: `provides`, `conflicts`, `replaces`, `backup`, `options`, `install`, and `changelog`. +Note that makepkg does not consider split package `depends` when checking +if dependencies are installed before package building and with `--syncdeps`. +All packages required to make the package are required to be specified in +the global `depends` and `makedepends` arrays. + An optional global directive is available when building a split package: *pkgbase*:: -- 2.7.0