[arch-general] Patching in PKGBUILDS

[Jan Alexander Steffens]

On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 4:51 AM, Mark Lee <mark at markelee.com> wrote:
> My patch command was given in the build() section of the PKGBUILD:
>
> build() {
>   cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}";
>   patch -Np1 -i "${srcdir}/i965_rendering.patch"
>   ./configure --prefix=/usr
>   make
> }
>
> While debugging libva-intel-driver, I applied the rendering patch via
> the PKGBUILD only to find later that it wasn't actually applied. Makepkg
> didn't stop building the package even though it failed to apply the
> patch.

Nothing wrong with that snippet; the problem lies somewhere else. Did
you actually watch the patch fail and makepkg continue? Are you sure
the package you have installed came from this PKGBUILD?