Linking when installing on Arch via AUR

[ccooper1982]

This may be my misuse, but:

• I installed ftxui via the AUR
• Building with meson
• It complained about undefined references

Long story, short:

• When running makepkg , by default it strips symbols from executables and libraries
• I had to edit the PKGBUILD to prevent this
• I could then link

I added the following line to PKGBUILD:

options=("!strip")

Am I misusing this? I don't see how other users can link without doing similar if on Arch and installing via the AUR (and I don't want to change the default behaviour of makepkg by editing its config).

References:

• pkgbuild then scroll down to options (array)