On Dienstag, 22. Januar 2008 05:30 richard terry wrote: Only for the stats: This warning is a good idea because that you don't need to be root is one of the big advantages.
I tried to compile it as myself, and it crashed at the end of the build, (sorry didn't keep messages), saying something about not being able to write to some directory or other (ok, so I'm not a geek!!!). When I re-built it as root it worked fine.
Okay, i know that it is now too late but before running makepkg as root i would prefer to see what wants to write in which directory. At example i do this which helps me in the most cases: # makepkg 2>&1 | tee build.log # less build.log And with foreign packages and not so much experience a '|| return 1' after each command plus optional a 'return 1' before the last '}' to test it before making the package could helps you getting more and more familiar with it. But this all be only my 2c. Concrete to your PKGBUILD: It looks harmless but it is a developer snapshot so the error could be inside of what you can't control with your PKGBUILD. See you, Attila