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picarica

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Registered: 2018-01-23

Posts: 48

[SOLVED]makepkg was unable to build a package

soo i got problem with this particular package

its https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/windows8-cursor/

when i got my arch running i wanted to custize it a little but i cannot get this package

firstly i tried

yaourt -Sy windows8-cursor

which i got error 

==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
    Aborting...
==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build windows8-cursor.

sooo then i tried

yaourt -G windows8-cursor

cd windows8-cursor

makepkg

which led to

==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
    Aborting...

soo after all this i tried

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/windows8-cursor.git

makepkg

which led to a same error

==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
    Aborting...

what is wrong here? is the package broken ? or am i doing something wrong ? after year of using arch i still dont get these AUR packages

Last edited by picarica (2018-05-21 21:43:41)

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED]makepkg was unable to build a package

Please use code tags when pasting to the boards: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … s_and_code

The PKGBUILD is broken, leave a note for the maintainer on the AUR page.

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loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 19,113

Re: [SOLVED]makepkg was unable to build a package

Last two comments on the AUR package page cover the issue,  maintainer is aware.

picarica

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Registered: 2018-01-23

Posts: 48

Re: [SOLVED]makepkg was unable to build a package

Please use code tags when pasting to the boards: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … s_and_code

The PKGBUILD is broken, leave a note for the maintainer on the AUR page.

yes i will let him now

and i am sorry for not usng code tags i couldnt find then when i was writing this

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED]makepkg was unable to build a package

https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#bbcode link is at the bottom of the reply / post box