[arch-general] makepkg is creating BOTH a /pkg and pkgusr on build??

David C. Rankin drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com
Fri May 18 08:54:27 EDT 2012


On 05/18/2012 02:33 AM, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 18/05/12 16:00, Martin Panter wrote:
>> On 18 May 2012 15:26, David C. Rankin <drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
>>>  Building a small app (GNU External Ballistic Calculator) for Arch. When the
>>> PKGBUILD goes to package the file it create both
>>>
>>> /pkg
>>> /pkgusr
>>>
>>> directories. It puts the .PKGINFO in /pkg and then the executable and libs under
>>> /pkgusr -- what is up with that?? Anybody seen this before?  I've grepped the
>>> source (Makefiles, etc..) and there is no reference to "pkgusr" so what's up?
>>
>> Never seen it before but my guess is that somewhere the app is joining
>> the $pkgdir directory with its own usr/lib/, usr/bin/ directories but
>> there is no slash in between.
>>
> 
> Correct...  I guess using 'make DESTDIR="$pkgidr/" install' would fix it.
> 
> 
> 
> 


Hmm,

  OK, I'll check again for the package manipulating pkgdir, because I'm using
the standard package:

package() {
  msg "Packaging ${pkgname}-${pkgver}"

  cd ${pkgname}-${pkgver}

  make DESTDIR=$pkgdir install
}


-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.


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