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

[C Anthony Risinger]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Pierre Chapuis <catwell at archlinux.us> wrote:
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> "C Anthony Risinger" <anthony at extof.me> a écrit :
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>>beh, i thought you were onto something... i didn't look at the makepkg
>>sources, but it is treating PKGDEST='"" as if it was never set.  so,
>>no dice :-(
>>
>>however, if i use an absolute path (instead of ".") it works alright.
>>in fact, i seem to have general problems with trying to use relative
>>paths as PKGDEST:
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>>==> ERROR: You do not have write permission to store packages in ./pkg/out.
>>    Aborting...
>>
>>but i do of course.
>
> Maybe you could use PKGDEST="$(pwd)" as a workaround?

yes this is what i did, thanks.

just bringing up the fact that makepkg totally bombs with relative
PKGDEST... with a permission error... makepkg must be changing the cwd
internally.

C Anthony