On 07/03/18 12:49, pacman-dev via pacman-dev wrote: > Hello Pacman Team, > > > > I was trying to build Pacman for installation into a custom folder. > > > > I downloaded the following pacman source code: > > https://sources.archlinux.org/other/pacman/pacman-5.0.2.tar.gz > > > > I then ran the following configure command: > > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/pacman/ --disable-doc --disable-shared > > > > After this is seems to be using --prefix for make install but not when > building. The binaries assume a location of /usr/local. See below for > details. How do I build pacman to run from a custom directory? > >
Build information: source code location : . prefix : /usr/local/pacman sysconfdir : /usr/local/pacman/etc conf file : /usr/local/pacman/etc/pacman.conf localstatedir : /usr/local/pacman/var database dir : /usr/local/pacman/var/lib/pacman/ cache dir : /usr/local/pacman/var/cache/pacman/pkg/ $ ./src/pacman/pacman error: config file /usr/local/pacman/etc/pacman.conf could not be read: No such file or directory Looks fine to me. A