Thanks for the wonderful explanation. Still, I get an error.
$ autoreconf -vif && ./configure --prefix=$HOME/pacman/usr/local $ make install ... libmakepkg/executable/checksum.sh: line 33: syntax error near unexpected token `<' libmakepkg/executable/checksum.sh: line 33: ` mapfile -t integlist < <(get_integlist)' make[3]: *** [Makefile:990: libmakepkg/executable/checksum.sh] Error 2 make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... GEN libmakepkg/integrity.sh GEN libmakepkg/buildenv/buildflags.sh GEN libmakepkg/buildenv/makeflags.sh GEN libmakepkg/buildenv/debugflags.sh GEN libmakepkg/buildenv/compiler.sh make[2]: *** [Makefile:699: all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: *** [Makefile:993: all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [Makefile:902: all] Error 2 The full log is ~46MiB: http://nly.info.tm:9001/log/pacman2 However, some files seem to be installed. $ ls $HOME/pacman/usr/local/bin/ pacman pacman-conf testpkg vercmp Thanks, Amar
