I'm trying to package sequin into nixpkgs, and the instructions in your documentation to build from source say cd cli && make build, however make build does more than just build the binary. It also puts the binary in $HOME/.local/bin and adds that to $PATH. That is not a build step, it's an installation or setup step.
This means that I have to either patch the Makefile or just reverse engineer the build instructions because $HOME isn't available when building packages in a clean chroot (which is also the case for Fedora/Red Hat, Debian, etc)
I'd recommend separating these two steps into two different targets. (and not having just one shell script build_and_install, those aren't the same thing).
I'm happy to make a patch for this if you'd like, just let me know if you'd accept it.
I'm trying to package sequin into nixpkgs, and the instructions in your documentation to build from source say
cd cli && make build, howevermake builddoes more than just build the binary. It also puts the binary in$HOME/.local/binand adds that to$PATH. That is not a build step, it's an installation or setup step.This means that I have to either patch the Makefile or just reverse engineer the build instructions because
$HOMEisn't available when building packages in a clean chroot (which is also the case for Fedora/Red Hat, Debian, etc)I'd recommend separating these two steps into two different targets. (and not having just one shell script build_and_install, those aren't the same thing).
I'm happy to make a patch for this if you'd like, just let me know if you'd accept it.