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Creating Alpine Linux Packages

Patch the Source

Learn how to add a patch to fix shaer's install() phase.

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Preface

In the previous lesson, we created an APKBUILD for shaer, a simple C++ project with a few dependencies. The build() and test() phases already work with the automatically generated APKBUILD from newapkbuild. However, the package() phase currently fails with the following error:

Shell
-- Install configuration: "None"
>>> shaer: Running postcheck for shaer
find: /shaer/pkg/shaer: No such file or directory
find: /shaer/pkg/shaer: No such file or directory
find: /shaer/pkg/shaer: No such file or directory
find: /shaer/pkg/shaer: No such file or directory
find: /shaer/pkg/shaer: No such file or directory
>>> shaer: Preparing package shaer...
/usr/bin/abuild: cd: line 2461: can't cd to /shaer/pkg/shaer: No such file or directory

Find the cause

In the output of abuild, we can see that multiple references to /shaer/pkg/shaer ...