[arch-general] Best way for PKGBUILD to depend on another PKGBUILD (not a package)

Patrick Burroughs (Celti) celticmadman at gmail.com
Mon Sep 23 16:00:23 EDT 2013


On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Nowaker <enwukaer at gmail.com> wrote:
> coreutils depends on libattr and libcap. Because of the nature of static
> compilation libattr.a and libcap.a files are needed during the build. My
> package defines PKGBUILDs from [core] repo as source=(), performs `makepkg`,
> and provides -L for coreutils make during build(). [2]

Something bugs me about calling makepkg from within a PKGBUILD. I
would make attr-static and libpcap-static packages that don't strip
the static libs when packaging and depend on those.

~Celti


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