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| author | Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> | 2011-06-15 06:32:42 +0200 |
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| committer | Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org> | 2011-06-22 17:45:55 +0200 |
| commit | 508b360c24ddfdb79f66cc14b197988a829b0ecd (patch) | |
| tree | 32b0e68a2c9ee5d272673c91f1ee4f21da100863 /doc | |
| parent | b803a33a8fc2ef86ba2d986c36f31524532d454b (diff) | |
| download | pacman-508b360c24ddfdb79f66cc14b197988a829b0ecd.tar.gz pacman-508b360c24ddfdb79f66cc14b197988a829b0ecd.tar.xz | |
makepkg: allow specifying alternative build directory
Add a BUILDDIR variable (which can be overridden in the environment)
to specify an alternative location for building the package. This is
useful for people who want to build on a different filesystem for
improved performance (e.g. tmpfs).
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/makepkg.8.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/makepkg.conf.5.txt | 8 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/makepkg.8.txt b/doc/makepkg.8.txt index e61f7ab3..f15226ac 100644 --- a/doc/makepkg.8.txt +++ b/doc/makepkg.8.txt @@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ Environment Variables Folder where the downloaded sources will be stored. Overrides the corresponding value defined in linkman:makepkg.conf[5]. +**BUILDDIR=**"/path/to/folder":: + Folder where the package will be built. Overrides the corresponding + value defined in linkman:makepkg.conf[5]. Configuration ------------- diff --git a/doc/makepkg.conf.5.txt b/doc/makepkg.conf.5.txt index 48f5ef56..aa0174cb 100644 --- a/doc/makepkg.conf.5.txt +++ b/doc/makepkg.conf.5.txt @@ -110,6 +110,14 @@ Options running in the DistCC cluster. In addition, you will want to modify your `MAKEFLAGS`. +**BUILDDIR=**"/path/to/folder":: + If this value is not set, packages will by default be built in + subdirectories of the directory that makepkg is called from. This + option allows setting the build location to another folder. + Incorrect use of `$startdir` in a PKGBUILD may cause building with + this option to fail. + + **GPGKEY=**"":: Specify a key to use for gpg signing instead of the default key in the keyring. Can be overridden with makepkg's `--key` option. |