[arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

[Allan McRae]

On 23/06/10 11:55, Baho Utot wrote:
> On 06/22/10 19:31, Allan McRae wrote:
>> On 23/06/10 07:01, Attila wrote:
>>> Hello together,
>>>
>>> since the new pacman a makepkg run creates a symlink to the package
>>> file in the
>>> directory of the PKGBUILD. Example:
>>>
>>> # ls -l *.gz
>>> opera-snapshot-10.60-6378.2ah-i686.pkg.tar.gz ->
>>> /server/work/archlinux/repo/opera-snapshot-10.60-6378.2ah-i686.pkg.tar.gz
>>>
>>>
>>> My differences to makepkg.conf.pacnew be this:
>>>
>>> MAKEFLAGS="-j2"
>>> CFLAGS="-march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
>>> CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
>>> BUILDENV=(fakeroot !distcc !color !ccache)
>>> OPTIONS=(strip !docs libtool emptydirs zipman purge)
>>> PKGDEST=/server/work/archlinux/repo
>>> PACKAGER="Attila<SysAdmin at hunnen>"
>>> PKGEXT='.pkg.tar.gz'
>>>
>>> [/server/work is a cifs mount point]
>>>
>>> Have i overseen something in the makepkg.conf to control this or does
>>> no one
>>> have this problem ... or is this a new feature which have to be so?
>>
>> New feature. If PKGDEST is set, it creates a symbolic link to the
>> packages in the working directory. I think the idea was that most of the
>> time you will want to "pacman -U <pkg>" at the end of the build and that
>> save you typing the whole PKGDEST path.
>>
>> Allan
>>
>
> What about SRCDEST ?
> Creating a sym link from source package to the build directory would be
> handy as well.
>

Do you mean SRCDEST or SRCPKGDEST.   The first should already work, the 
second has a patch on the pacman mailing list.

Allan