[aur-general] How to use a local directory as the source for a -git package

[Yichao Yu]

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 1:49 AM, 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng)
<techlivezheng at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2013/5/15 Myles English <mylesenglish at gmail.com>:
>>
>> 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) writes:
>>
>>> I have tried the following, none of them working
>>>
>>>     source="git://../.."
>>>
>>>     source="git+../../"
>>>
>>>     source="git+/path/to/somefile"
>>
>> Here's one of mine for the package dolfin-git:
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>> source=("dolfin::git+https://bitbucket.org/fenics-project/dolfin.git#branch=${_branch}")
>
> Okay, thanks guys. The relative path is still not working, but

What is the problem of using realpath??

> absolute path is fine. I know it is not good idea use a local path,
> but you know, it just a testing build of my project, so it's good at
> this case, I found is better use a Arch Package than `make install`
> for development.