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A Brief Tour of the Makepkg Process: What Makes a Pacman Package

Introduction

This is a terse document covering the anatomy of a package built for the pacman package manager.

The following example commands can mostly run verbatim to manually create a

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/*
compile with:
  gcc -shared -fPIC fix_umask.c -o fix_umask.so

edit /usr/bin/subl to include (fix the path to fix_umask.so if necessary):

  #!/bin/sh
  export LD_PRELOAD=/opt/sublime_text/fix_umask.so
  exec /opt/sublime_text/sublime_text "$@"