--- PKGBUILD.old    2021-08-18 17:57:55.048523097 -0400
+++ PKGBUILD    2021-08-18 18:07:08.754221631 -0400
@@ -98,9 +98,25 @@
 create_links() {
+    _orig_dir="$(pwd)"
+
     # create soname links
     for _lib in $(find "${pkgdir}" -name '*.so*' | grep -v 'xorg/'); do
-        _soname=$(dirname "${_lib}")/$(readelf -d "${_lib}" | grep -Po 'SONAME.*: \[\K[^]]*' || true)
-        _base=$(echo ${_soname} | sed -r 's/(.*).so.*/\1.so/')
-        [[ -e "${_soname}" ]] || ln -s $(basename "${_lib}") "${_soname}"
-        [[ -e "${_base}" ]] || ln -s $(basename "${_soname}") "${_base}"
+        _dirname="$(dirname "${_lib}")"
+        _original="$(basename "${_lib}")"
+        _soname="$(readelf -d "${_lib}" | grep -Po 'SONAME.*: \[\K[^]]*' || true)"
+        _base="$(echo ${_soname} | sed -r 's/(.*)\.so.*/\1.so/')"
+
+        cd "${_dirname}"
+
+        if ! [[ -z "${_soname}" ]]; then # if not empty
+            if ! [[ -e "./${_soname}" ]]; then
+                ln -s $(basename "${_lib}") "./${_soname}"
+            fi
+        fi
+        if ! [[ -z "${_base}" ]]; then # if not empty (if _soname is empty, _base should be too)
+            if ! [[ -e "./${_base}" ]]; then
+                ln -s "./${_soname}" "./${_base}"
+            fi
+        fi
     done
+    cd "${_orig_dir}"
 }