Quoting Emil Velikov via arch-projects (2017-08-08 18:45:20) > Hello Arch developers, > > After an upstream issue reported by Laurent Carlier (aka lordheavy) > Istarted wondering why builds fail on his end and not my (Arch) > machine. > The key difference seems to be that he's using devtools, whereas I do not. > > After a further chat, I got the impression that devtools installs > runtime dependencies before/alongside(?) as the PKGBUILD build/install > target is issued. > > This doesn't sound quite right to me. Shouldn't it be done, only on > runtime scenarios - say the check target? > > Of course, I could be missing something so if anyone has some pointers > that will be appreciated. >
This is slightly confusingly written, but all packages listed in the depends and the makedepends arrays will always be installed before building a package. makedepends should only list packages that are only required when building, not all packages required when building -- Sincerely, Johannes Löthberg PGP Key ID: 0x50FB9B273A9D0BB5 PGP Key FP: 5134 EF9E AF65 F95B 6BB1 608E 50FB 9B27 3A9D 0BB5 https://theos.kyriasis.com/~kyrias/
