On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Robbie Smith <zoqaeski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/04/13 22:20, Jan Alexander Steffens wrote: >> >> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Robbie Smith <zoqaeski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> I’ve been working on my own fork of luakit, building and installing it to >>> test changes, and I’ve come across some weirdness in the PKGBUILD. The >>> original luakit-git PKGBUILD[1] has a set of options to pass to make to >>> (for >>> example) enable luajit. >>> >>> I rewrote it to conform with pacman/makepkg 4.1 vcs standards[2], and for >>> some reason, if I use an auxiliary variable to store these options, the >>> packaging fails. Can anyone shed some light on why this might be so? >>> >>> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lu/luakit-git/PKGBUILD >>> [2] https://github.com/luakit-crowd/luakit/blob/develop/extras/PKGBUILD >> >> >> Because $pkgdir only exists in the package() function. Using it >> earlier won't work. >> > OK… > > So why does the $_makeopts variable work in build() but not in package(), > even if I drop $pkgdir from it? It should either work for both or fail for > both if there’s no reference to $pkgdir, shouldn’t it? Missing variables are replaced with nothing instead of immediately causing an error, and DESTDIR is not used during build.
