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I was about compiling libffi and pacman threw an error on me.
unrecognized option
The PKGBUILD has as options
options=('!libtool' 'force')
I deleted the force part and everything went well. So what does this force thing anyway? The wiki is a bit silent about this...
I guess that something that got omitted over the course of time. Right or wrong?
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remove th force option. is deprecated in favor of epoch
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
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thank you sir.
There are some more PKGBUILD with that option... what to do?
I count 42 hits mostly in community and extra...
bugreport perhaps?
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bugreport perhaps?
That would be good, yes. The change is pretty recent, and some packages can go years without being rebuilt (so something like that wouldn't be caught).
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sigh - I knew it...
it will happen shortly.
case closed
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