[arch-general] Referencing $srcdir in PKGBUILD?

[Magnus Therning]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:45, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On 17/08/10 19:28, Magnus Therning wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:10, Jan de Groot<jan at jgc.homeip.net>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 10:05 +0100, 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?
>>>
>>> Depends on your package. Somehow your $srcdir of $pkgdir ended up in one
>>> of the installed files in your package. Use grep to find references to
>>> it (the full path, not the variable name) and find a way to get rid of
>>> those.
>>
>> Ah, so the warning is that something in $pkgdir refers to the value of
>> $srcdir?
>>
>> How does makepkg determine this?
>>
>> "play" is a part of my $srcdir, but
>>
>>   magnus at bryma 2520 ~/play/arch/ocaml-odn/pkg/usr/lib/ocaml/site-lib/odn
>>   % grep play *
>>   magnus at bryma 2521 ~/play/arch/ocaml-odn/pkg/usr/lib/ocaml/site-lib/odn
>>   % strings *|grep play
>>   magnus at bryma 2521 ~/play/arch/ocaml-odn/pkg/usr/lib/ocaml/site-lib/odn
>>
>>> What package are we talking about btw?
>>
>> Several, but the one here is ocaml-odn on AUR.
>>
>
> makepkg just does something equivalent to:
> grep -R "$srcdir" $pkgdir

Ah, oki.  Then I've found the reason for it as well.  Thanks!

/M

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