On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > Jan de Groot wrote: >> >> Hello devs, >> >> Today I was upgrading genius and found out it had dependencies on >> termcap-compat. Lookin in the configure file, it checks like this: >> >> checking for -ltermcap -> yes: link to -ltermcap, no: check for >> -lncurses >> >> I've seen some bugs last week that involved termcap-compat dependencies >> as a result of building on a system which is not clean (to the devs not >> doing it yet: build in chroots, not on your working system which is >> polluted with unneeded packages and AUR stuff). These bugs were fixed by >> actually adding these dependencies. >> >> Please don't add additional dependencies like this old deprecated >> termcap-compat package just because a bug was reported, but please check >> out if it's really needed as dependency and leave it out when possible. >> > > And given this is the second post mentioning using chroots, I will bump the > wiki page I wrote: > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_Clean_Chroot
Shouldn't the last line be "sudo mkarchroot -u <chrootdir>/root" not "<chrootdir>/repo" ?

