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trinitron

Member

Registered: 2008-08-05

Posts: 2

makepkg symbolic link errors

Hi all,

I have just installed Arch linux and most things are running smoothly, but I am unable to make any AUR packages. For example, following the beginners guide I downloaded yaourt, untarred it and ran makepkg -c.

Here is the output:

==> Making package: yaourt 0.9-2  (Tue Aug  5 11:33:36 PDT 2008)
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
  -> Downloading yaourt-0.9.src.tar.gz...
--2008-08-05 11:33:36--  http://archiwain.free.fr/os/i686/yaourt … src.tar.gz
Resolving archiwain.free.fr... 212.27.63.106
Connecting to archiwain.free.fr|212.27.63.106|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 42243 (41K) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `yaourt-0.9.src.tar.gz'

     0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .         100% 26.4K=1.6s

2008-08-05 11:33:38 (26.4 KB/s) - `yaourt-0.9.src.tar.gz' saved [42243/42243]

cp: cannot create symbolic link `/mnt/hgfs/plots/yaourt/src/yaourt-0.9.src.tar.gz' to `/mnt/hgfs/plots/yaourt/yaourt-0.9.src.tar.gz': Operation not supported

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This happens with all the packages I've tried to make, not just this one. I searched the forum and found another thread about the symbolic link issue but didn't follow it well enough to know if it's the same issue.  In particular there doesn't seem to be a cp command in the PKGBUILD file.

Sorry if this problem is trivial but I'm rather new to this stuff.

Thanks,

Sam

kclive18

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From: Columbus, Ohio, USA

Registered: 2008-05-08

Posts: 219

Re: makepkg symbolic link errors

Don't use the -c flag (not sure what it does but I never use it).  makepkg will do the job just fine.

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trinitron

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Registered: 2008-08-05

Posts: 2

Re: makepkg symbolic link errors

The command without the c flag would give me the same error. I think I've discovered the cause of the problem (and why I haven't found other reports on google, etc). I'm running on VMWare and was compiling on a folder that was shared with the host system. It seems to work ok if I untar in another directory.