[arch-general] Referencing $srcdir in PKGBUILD?

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Tue Aug 17 05:15:34 EDT 2010


On 17/08/10 19:05, Magnus Therning wrote:
> Lately my PKGBUILDs result in a warning when building:
>
> ==>  WARNING: Package contains reference to $srcdir
>
> It's a bit confusing, since PKGBUILD(5) has the following to say about $srcdir:
>
>         srcdir
>             This points to the directory where makepkg extracts or
> copies all source files.
>
> What should I do to get rid of the warning?
>
> /M
>

grep your files in your package for $srcdir (the actual value...).  If 
it is not in a config file or RPATH or the like, you can probably ignore it.

Allan





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