>>> "make install" does it >> >> Called by pacman, I suppose. Anyway this is irrelevant. > > No. pacman does not build packages. It installs them Depends how you look at it: $ pacman -Qo `which makepkg` /usr/bin/makepkg is owned by pacman 3.3.3-1 so maybe pacman the command doesn't build packages, but pacman the project surely does -- damjan