On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:10, Jan de Groot <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 10:05 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: >> Lately my PKGBUILDs result in a warning when building: >> >> ==> WARNING: Package contains reference to $srcdir >> >> It's a bit confusing, since PKGBUILD(5) has the following to say about $srcdir: >> >> srcdir >> This points to the directory where makepkg extracts or >> copies all source files. >> >> What should I do to get rid of the warning? > > Depends on your package. Somehow your $srcdir of $pkgdir ended up in one > of the installed files in your package. Use grep to find references to > it (the full path, not the variable name) and find a way to get rid of > those. Ah, so the warning is that something in $pkgdir refers to the value of $srcdir? How does makepkg determine this? "play" is a part of my $srcdir, but magnus@bryma 2520 ~/play/arch/ocaml-odn/pkg/usr/lib/ocaml/site-lib/odn % grep play * magnus@bryma 2521 ~/play/arch/ocaml-odn/pkg/usr/lib/ocaml/site-lib/odn % strings *|grep play magnus@bryma 2521 ~/play/arch/ocaml-odn/pkg/usr/lib/ocaml/site-lib/odn > What package are we talking about btw? Several, but the one here is ocaml-odn on AUR. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus ; identi.ca|twitter: magthe
