On 01/03/2017 04:12 PM, Leonid Bloch wrote: > Thanks! That was very helpful! > > All applied, except... "--skip-build" - indeed it makes sense, but I > have never seen it with other Python packages. So I wonder if indeed it > is a good practice, or is there some reason not to include it?
Well, python-setuptools does it, but it doesn't seem to be very popular. Really, for Make-powered builds the dependencies for "install" are going to run anyway (but they were built during build() and usually do nothing, silently). Then again, a lot of python PKGBUILDs don't have a build() function at all, which means the package() function will invoke "build" itself. Apparently, there is an arcane difference between building a python module and compiling an ELF binary, but no one has told me what that difference may be... I don't usually pay attention to what other people do. :) It makes no difference whether you look at the repos or the AUR, both have people who do all three styles. The only practical difference would be if someone, say, ran `makepkg --nobuild && makepkg --repackage` on a VCS package, which they shouldn't. -- Eli Schwartz
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