Magnus Therning wrote:
Allan McRae wrote: [..]As a general rule, you never should use $startdir in a PKGBUILD.Is that written down somewhere? It'd be nice to have a place to refer to when arguing some changes to PKGBUILDs.
man PKGBUILD:
startdir was most often used in combination with /src or
/pkg postfixes, but use of the srcdir and pkgdir variables is
preferred.
The wording has been made even stronger about not using $startdir for
the next pacman release.
Allan
