[arch-general] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14873

[Allan McRae]

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.

Allan