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linduxed

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[SOLVED]Awesome build process gets stuck

Hi there Archers,

When I try to build the latest version of Awesome it manages to install all the dependencies, but when it comes to actually building awesome it consistently gets stuck on the following line:

Scanning dependencies of target man
[ 57%] Generating manpages/man1/awesome.1.xml
[ 57%] Generating manpages/man1/awesome.1

It stays there indefinitely.

On the AUR-page for this package I got the advice that running makepkg with root privileges might solve the problem, but I don't think this is a proper solution. Posts from Bionic_Apple seem to have some connection to my problem.

With my limited understanding of the make files inside the build directory, I've concluded that it all looks OK, but that doesn't stop it from freezing half-way through the process.

Any ideas on how I could make the install finish that doesn't involve root privileges?

Last edited by linduxed (2012-01-19 00:48:12)

linduxed

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Registered: 2008-10-12

Posts: 64

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Re: [SOLVED]Awesome build process gets stuck

Solved by building as root in a chroot environment.