On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Pierre Chapuis <catwell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > "C Anthony Risinger" <anthony@xxxxxxxx> a écrit : > >>beh, i thought you were onto something... i didn't look at the makepkg >>sources, but it is treating PKGDEST='"" as if it was never set. so, >>no dice :-( >> >>however, if i use an absolute path (instead of ".") it works alright. >>in fact, i seem to have general problems with trying to use relative >>paths as PKGDEST: >> >>==> ERROR: You do not have write permission to store packages in ./pkg/out. >> Aborting... >> >>but i do of course. > > Maybe you could use PKGDEST="$(pwd)" as a workaround? yes this is what i did, thanks. just bringing up the fact that makepkg totally bombs with relative PKGDEST... with a permission error... makepkg must be changing the cwd internally. C Anthony
