[arch-general] Referencing $srcdir in PKGBUILD?

[Philipp Überbacher]

Excerpts from Ray Rashif's message of 2010-08-17 13:52:11 +0200:
> 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/

Thanks Ray, I noted that so I can check what's going on next time.
The upstream issue is what I guessed would be the case and would require
nasty patching, unless upstream fixes it in a timely fashion.
At least I know what it's about now, thanks.
-- 
Philipp

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