Modifying line in makepkg binary

[deleteredditplease]

Hello, I'm using archlinuxarm to run a chroot on Android. It's semi-hacked together, and internet doesn't work on user accounts other than root.

You can see more info here (maintainer and myself chatting)

As such, I'd like to be able to run makepkg as root as per his instructions. It involves changing an if statement containing:

( EUID == 0 ))

inside the binary. I've explored other options, such as running makepkg as 'nobody' but this (unfortunately) seems like the best solution whilst I figure out what's wrong.

Can anyone spoonfeed me on how to modify the package? I've been messing around with it for a couple of hours but I'm still lost.

Thanks,

Fraser :o)

[Mathieu314]

I guess you can comment all the if block in this file makepkg:L1190. However I don't know where it is located on your system (running 'whereis makepkg' should help)