[aur-general] Aptana and ELF Files

Smartboy smartboyathome at gmail.com
Wed Sep 1 19:19:36 EDT 2010


 On 09/01/2010 03:42 PM, Nathan O wrote:
> Currently I have adopted Aptana and updated it to a nicer PKGBUILD.
> Namcap gives me that ELF files are outside of a valid path.
> The way Aptana is packaged, it seems you would need to copy the source
> directory to another directory on the system, for example /opt/${pkgname}.
> Since you can't compile the program and  if you seperate the files or
> directories, the program would not very likely run. What should I do? Ignore
> it, or put the files/directories in another location besides /opt?
As a former maintainer, I found putting the files in /opt and using
proper scripts/symlinks worked best for it. I've seen other binary
packages (for example Enemy Territory: Quake Wars) use this, and it
works for them.

Smartboy


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