[aur-general] TU Application - Ike Devolder

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Sat Mar 3 16:44:57 EST 2012


On 04/03/12 06:02, Bjoern Lindig wrote:
> Hi Xyne,
> 
> this is the noop listening your conversations ... 
>>
>> I too think that your PKGBUILDs look good. They're clean and
>> well-structured. The only issue I see is the lack of variable
>> quoting, e.g. I've seen this is many of them:
>>
>> make DESTDIR=${pkgdir} install
>>
>> That will not work if there is a space on the pkgdir path. For
>> example:
>>
>> $ mkdir 'foo bar'
>> $ foo='foo bar'
>> $ cd ${foo}
>> bash: cd: foo: No such file or directory
> 
> I'd like to pick up the chance to clearify this for my personal record,
> because I had problem with the space in the pkgdir path. What do you
> suggest? 

I suggest not building in directories with spaces...



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