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makepkg defines three variables that you should use as part of the build and install process:

startdir

This contains the absolute path to the directory where the PKGBUILD file is located. This variable used to be used in combination with /src or /pkg postfixes, but the use of srcdir and pkgdir variables is the modern method. $startdir/src is not guaranteed to be the same as $srcdir, and likewise for $pkgdir. Use of this variable is deprecated and strongly discouraged.

srcdir

This points to the directory where makepkg extracts or copies all source files.

pkgdir

This points to the directory where makepkg bundles the installed package, which becomes the root directory of your built package.

All of them contain absolute paths, which means, you don't have to worry about your working directory if you use these variables properly.