Summary and Info:

Running makepkg -R with no $startdir/pkg results in multiple errors and a package with the full content of $startdir. I was not fully able to make out if this bug is still in the Git version, which is quite different from the makepkg in current, but just in case, I patched create_package() to check for $pkgdir first.

Steps to Reproduce:

% mv pkg _pkg
% makepkg -R
...
==> Removing info/doc files...
/usr/bin/makepkg: line 930: cd: /home/dag/builds/io/pkg: No such file or directory
==> Compressing man pages...
==> Stripping debugging symbols from libraries...
==> Stripping symbols from binaries...
==> Removing empty directories...
/usr/bin/makepkg: line 982: cd: /home/dag/builds/io/pkg: No such file or directory
du: cannot access `/home/dag/builds/io/pkg': No such file or directory
==> Generating .FILELIST file...
/usr/bin/makepkg: line 997: cd: /home/dag/builds/io/pkg: No such file or directory
==> Generating .PKGINFO file...
/usr/bin/makepkg: line 1002: cd: /home/dag/builds/io/pkg: No such file or directory
==> Copying install script...
cp: cannot create regular file `/home/dag/builds/io/pkg/.INSTALL': No such file or directory
==> Compressing package...
/usr/bin/makepkg: line 1062: cd: /home/dag/builds/io/pkg: No such file or directory
tar: .INSTALL: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: io-20070528-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz: file changed as we read it
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
==> ERROR: Failed to create package file.

% pacman -Qlp io-20070528-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz | head -10
io /Io-2007-05-28.zip
io /PKGBUILD
io /_pkg/
io /_pkg/.FILELIST
io /_pkg/.INSTALL
io /_pkg/.PKGINFO
io /_pkg/usr/
io /_pkg/usr/bin/
io /_pkg/usr/bin/io
io /_pkg/usr/bin/io_static

% pacman -Qlp io-20070528-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz | tail -10
io /src/Io-2007-05-28/tools/_build/binaries/io_static
io /src/Io-2007-05-28/tools/_build/objs/
io /src/Io-2007-05-28/tools/_build/objs/main.o
io /src/Io-2007-05-28/tools/io/
io /src/Io-2007-05-28/tools/io/DocsExtractor.io
io /src/Io-2007-05-28/tools/old/
io /src/Io-2007-05-28/tools/old/processIoCode.io
io /src/Io-2007-05-28/tools/old/processIoCodeFor.io
io /src/Io-2007-05-28/tools/source/
io /src/Io-2007-05-28/tools/source/main.c