[pacman-dev] [PATCH] makepkg: print only base filename of install/changelog files

[Daenyth Blank]

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 14:59, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Cedric Staniewski <cedric at gmx.ca> wrote:
>> The complete file path of a temporary symlink is really useless
>> information.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Cedric Staniewski <cedric at gmx.ca>
>> ---
> Not really sure what the right answer is, but what is the reasoning
> not to use something like `basename` here? Obviously this is a bit
> faster but there is a utility for this that must have some practical
> purpose.
>

I seem to recall reading at some point that basename is not very
portable. I could be mistaken though...