[arch-general] PKGBUILD - howto handle 'src' when svn source is already in PKGBUILD dir?

[Kirill Churin]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 7:57 AM, David C. Rankin <
drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:

> Guys,
>
>  I'm trying to figure out the best way to create a set of PKGBUILDs for the
> Trinity svn tree. I already have the svn source on my computer. I can check
> for
> the latest version or svn up each module and I can have makepkg
> 'redownload' the
> latest rev in $startdir/src, but HOW do I setup the PKGBUILD to just use
> what is
> already in the svn tree?
>
>  Example: arts
>
>  I have the following in the dependencies/arts directory:
>
> .svn
> admin
> artsc
> cmake
> doc
> examples
> flow
> gmcop
> libltdl
> mcop
> mcop_mt
> mcopidl
> qtmcop
> soundserver
> tests
> x11
> CMakeLists.txt
> COPYING
> COPYING.LIB
> INSTALL
> Makefile.am.in
> Makefile.cvs
> arts.lsm
> arts.pc.cmake
> config.h.cmake
> configure.in.bot
> configure.in.in
>
>  Since I already have the source, I don't want to create a new
> $startdir/src/arts under the dependencies/arts directory by simply calling
> makepkg in that directory. (unless there is some out-of-source trick using
> links
> or the like) I'd like to find a way to just do a PKGBUILD to use the source
> in
> the current directory and then create the pkg directory in another
> location. Is
> there a standard way of handling PKGBUILDs for each module in a large tree
> that
> can do this?
>
>  It's almost like I want to use --noextract while creating a link from src
> ->
> ./, but that just seems screwy. Anybody got a trick for doing this?
>
> --
> David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
>


See how this is handled e.g. in this PKGBGUILD:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mesa-git/mesa-git/PKGBUILD

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