Magnus Therning wrote:
Allan McRae wrote:
Magnus Therning wrote:
Allan McRae wrote:
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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.
Ah, excellent, I wasn't aware of the existence of that man-page.
Another thing that I've been wondering about is the relationship
between 'depends' and 'makedepends'. The description in the man-page
is fairly clear, but just to check I'm wondering if it's correct to
say that
1. a dependency should _never_ be mentioned in both 'depends' and
'makedepends'?
2. the packages required to build a package is the union of 'depends'
and 'makedepends'?
Yes. They way I think about it is "depends" are needed to run a package
and "makedepends" are extras needed to build the package.
Allan
