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

[Allan McRae]

On 30/06/10 06:08, C Anthony Risinger wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Pierre Chapuis<catwell at archlinux.us>  wrote:
>>
>> "C Anthony Risinger"<anthony at extof.me>  a écrit :
>>
>>> 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:
>>>
>>> ==>  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.

Use the bug tracker if you want that fixed.