[solved] can't build packages with makepkg anymore

null · 2010-06-29 10:43:02

hi.
as the topic title says i can't build packages anymore. i tried it with several packages (including the opera-beta and pacman-color pkgbuild) but the build process always stops with (translated from german so not the one-to-one makepkg translation):

==> Make package ... 
/usr/bin/makepkg: Line 902: * 1024 : Syntax Error: Operator expected. (Error causing character is \"* 1024 \").
==> Stopped make: pacman-color 3.4.0-1 (Di 29. Jun 12:17:50 CEST 2010)

i've got no idea what could have caused the problem; i didn't install new packages in the last time or changed system configuration files (except the xorg.conf.d for my keyboard layout).
the system is up-to-date.

using pacman without color is only half the fun

Last edited by null (2010-06-29 10:56:10)

wonder · 2010-06-29 10:46:26

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19932 ?

Allan · 2010-06-29 10:46:51

You have cw installed which provides a coloured version of du which breaks makepkg's package size claculations. It will be fixed in 3.4.1.

null · 2010-06-29 10:55:52

awsome! moving /usr/lib/cw/du to du.bak solved the problem!

tanks a lot!

Ramses de Norre · 2010-06-29 11:32:59

null wrote:

awsome! moving /usr/lib/cw/du to du.bak solved the problem!
tanks a lot!

alias du="/bin/du"

would be a better work-around, your current solution could give problems when packages are upgraded/removed.

null · 2010-06-29 12:14:30

guess that's the better way. thanks

Last edited by null (2010-07-03 06:35:01)

jdarnold · 2010-07-01 17:37:55

I too have this problem and I don't have cw (whatever that is) installed (that I know of anyway). The only 'du' I have is in /bin/du. That being said, it definitely has to do with color, as if I give makepkg the --nocolor option, it works fine:

$ makepkg

==> ERROR: An unknown error has occurred. Exiting...
$ makepkg --nocolor
==> ERROR: PKGBUILD does not exist.
$ locate -b '\du'
/bin/du
$

Allan · 2010-07-02 00:08:14

what does

tput setaf 0
echo $?

output? It looks like your terminal does not support colours through tput...

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#1 2010-06-29 10:43:02

[solved] can't build packages with makepkg anymore

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Re: [solved] can't build packages with makepkg anymore

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Re: [solved] can't build packages with makepkg anymore

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