Where are makepkg outputs packages built?

Question

I'm trying to install a AUR package. It seems easy, and I follow the Wiki description for it. I downloaded the tarball, did makepkg -S to download the source and build it.

Apparently no error messages at output. The process created some tar.gz files, that I tried to target when I use pacman -U But none of them is the file expected by this command,

'missing metadata package in' ....

I did a research on web. I found that the place that makepkg output the package for Pacman is set in makepkg.conf, using PKGDEST item.

I changed that in /etc/makepkg.conf. It didn't create any file in that place when I tried to make that AUR package again (makepkg -S -f).

How to find the package for Pacman? Did the build go wrong and have no obvious message?

--Well .. after hours of search.. i give up and installed yaourt.. using that this to insall my package

Answer 1

According to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg and my firsthand experience, they are put into the working directory by default:

Next, one can configure where source files and packages should be placed and identify themselves as the packager. This step is optional; packages will be created in the working directory where makepkg is run by default.