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#1 2011-01-04 00:22:19
- iso
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[Solved] makepkg suddenly throws an error all the time
After making some tweaks to my dwm/config.h file the makepkg now no longer works and returns the error: An unknown error has occurred. Exiting...
It doesn't seem like it is the config.h file since I am unable to compile to backed up config.h file.
I have read elsewhere that the compiling is failing due to the terminal coloring, but running the makepkg with --nocolor results in the same error.
The odd thing is that things were working then suddenly stopped within the same terminal session.
Any ideas?
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#2 2011-01-04 00:26:13
- Allan
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Re: [Solved] makepkg suddenly throws an error all the time
Post the makepkg output.
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#3 2011-01-04 00:33:43
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Re: [Solved] makepkg suddenly throws an error all the time
I should have mentioned that lack of details in the error message 
[chris@chris-archlinux dwm]$ makepkg -sf >> PKGBUILD
usage: dwm [-v]
==> ERROR: An unknown error has occurred. Exiting...
Extra info:
> dwm -v
> dwm-5.8.2, © 2006-2010 dwm engineers, see LICENSE for details
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#4 2011-01-04 00:38:25
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Re: [Solved] makepkg suddenly throws an error all the time
Why aren't you using makepkg -efi if you are just making changes to config.h?
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#5 2011-01-04 00:42:53
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Re: [Solved] makepkg suddenly throws an error all the time
makepkg -efi returns the same error.
As for why, I am pretty new to makepkg so I can't give you a solid answer on that one
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#6 2011-01-04 00:52:55
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Re: [Solved] makepkg suddenly throws an error all the time
[chris@chris-archlinux dwm]$ makepkg -sf >> PKGBUILD
this looks really not right... I believe your PKGBUILD doesn't look right anymore too... take a new, fresh PKGBUILD and try with jason command
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#7 2011-01-04 01:01:25
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Re: [Solved] makepkg suddenly throws an error all the time
I should have mentioned that lack of details in the error message
[chris@chris-archlinux dwm]$ makepkg -sf >> PKGBUILD
usage: dwm [-v]
==> ERROR: An unknown error has occurred. Exiting...Extra info:
> dwm -v
> dwm-5.8.2, © 2006-2010 dwm engineers, see LICENSE for details
It looks like the PKGBUILD is making a call to "dwm" with the wrong options which is causing an error and makepkg to abort.
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#8 2011-01-04 01:06:29
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Re: [Solved] makepkg suddenly throws an error all the time
Follow the instructions in the Wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dw … g_config.h
especially this bit:
$ makepkg -efiOffline
#9 2011-01-04 04:42:49
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Re: [Solved] makepkg suddenly throws an error all the time
I think it was the makepkg -s >> PKGBUILD that goofed things up, instead of using the -g option.
After fooling around with the params, the only way I could get things working again was to download the dwm build scripts and redo things from scratch.
Thanks for the help.
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