[arch-general] Referencing $srcdir in PKGBUILD?

[Ray Rashif]

On 17 August 2010 19:32, Philipp Überbacher <hollunder at lavabit.com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Loui Chang's message of 2010-08-17 13:14:44 +0200:
>> On Tue 17 Aug 2010 13:01 +0200, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
>> > Excerpts from Loui Chang's message of 2010-08-17 12:35:41 +0200:
>> > > On Tue 17 Aug 2010 12:09 +0200, Heiko Baums wrote:
>> > > > Am Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:15:34 +1000
>> > > > schrieb Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>:
>> > > >
>> > > > > 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.
>> > > >
>> > > > I'm not quite sure if this is not a bug in makepkg, because I
>> > > > have this problem with almost all of my packages in AUR since the latest
>> > > > update to pacman 3.4.0. I never got this message before and I haven't
>> > > > changed such elementary parts of the packages. And if I'm right this
>> > > > problem appears with almost every package which I install from AUR.
>> > > >
>> > > > But I need to watch it more narrowly.
>> > >
>> > > You'll get that with any package that contains debugging symbols.
>> >
>> > So it isn't about the usual 'cd $srcdir/${pkgname}-${pkgver}' ?
>>
>> No, it's about build directories being referenced in the finished
>> package, not the PKGBUILD.
>
> Oh.. I assumed it was some random annoyance and ignored it. I've seen it
> a number of times already.
> So 'grep -R $somedistinctpartofthepathtoPKGBUILDS $pkg' should find the
> offending file? And then some nasty patching to fix it?

It's not much of a big deal, and there's rarely need for any "nasty
patching". It serves as a reminder to check for accidental inclusion
of build paths in important runtime/system files, which often is an
upstream build issue or user-specific mistake. Cases where this can be
ignored and is usually the most prevalent is, for example,
documentation-related files.

Just run this from the makepkg build dir:

grep -R "$(pwd)/src" pkg/


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