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eriksatie

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Registered: 2011-06-13

Posts: 30

Error while building scrotwm package

Hi, I'm having an issue building the scrotwm package from AUR.

After downloading the tarball and PKGBUILD and doing:

makepkg

I am met with this error:

==> Making package: scrotwm 0.9.30-1 (Fri Jun 17 22:18:24 EDT 2011)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
  -> Downloading scrotwm-0.9.30.tgz...
--2011-06-17 22:18:24--  http://opensource.conformal.com/snapshots/scrotwm/scrotwm-0.9.30.tgz
Resolving opensource.conformal.com... 38.106.194.131
Connecting to opensource.conformal.com|38.106.194.131|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 65765 (64K) [application/x-tar]
Saving to: “scrotwm-0.9.30.tgz.part”

100%[======================================>] 65,765       249K/s   in 0.3s    

2011-06-17 22:18:25 (249 KB/s) - “scrotwm-0.9.30.tgz.part” saved [65765/65765]

==> ERROR: LICENSE was not found in the build directory and is not a URL.

any ideas what the problem is?

Thanks

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Error while building scrotwm package

makepkg is expecting to find a file called LICENSE in the build directory, becuase that is what the PKGBUILD's source array says. It cannot find it, and it also cannot download it becuase "LICENSE" is not a URL.

Many packages require more than just a PKGBUILD to compile - please ensure that you have downloaded the correct files from the AUR.