[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Option to enable running makepkg in root

[Saul Tigh]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 12:57 AM Eli Schwartz <eschwartz at archlinux.org>
wrote:


> Thanks, your v2 patch no longer returns an error claiming it is
> corrupted. :)
>
>
Glad to hear it ;) I'm very new to this whole submitting patch via git
process so please bear with me.


> Most likely you'd want to take a look at build-aux/edit-script.sh.in,
> and the "substs" dictionary of replacements in meson.build -- you can
> add options to meson_options.txt
>
> autotools is still supported, and I'd advise adding options to both
> meson and autotools -- the plan is to deprecate autotools soon, but
> until it's actually removed, we should probably try to make them both
> behave the same. :D
>
> Feel free to ask any questions about implementing changes in meson.
>

Thanks a lot. I will get down to work and re-submit a new patch once it is
ready. The support in pacman community is amazing ;)