Hello, i've spotted a problem in makepkg's cleanup part if the host is running bash-4.0. As makepkg runs bash with option -e, on bash-4.0 it fails if strip reports an unsupported binary. The following trivial patch fixes the problem. Signed-off-by: "Marc - A. Dahlhaus" <mad@wol.de> --- pacman-3.2.2.orig/scripts/makepkg.sh.in +++ pacman-3.2.2/scripts/makepkg.sh.in @@ -766,11 +766,11 @@ tidy_install() { find ${STRIP_DIRS[@]} -type f 2>/dev/null | while read binary ; do case "$(file -biz "$binary")" in *application/x-sharedlib*) # Libraries (.so) - /usr/bin/strip --strip-debug "$binary";; + /usr/bin/strip --strip-debug "$binary" || true;; *application/x-archive*) # Libraries (.a) - /usr/bin/strip --strip-debug "$binary";; + /usr/bin/strip --strip-debug "$binary" || true;; *application/x-executable*) # Binaries - /usr/bin/strip "$binary";; + /usr/bin/strip "$binary" || true;; esac done fi --- pacman-3.2.2.orig/scripts/makepkg.sh.in +++ pacman-3.2.2/scripts/makepkg.sh.in @@ -766,11 +766,11 @@ tidy_install() { find ${STRIP_DIRS[@]} -type f 2>/dev/null | while read binary ; do case "$(file -biz "$binary")" in *application/x-sharedlib*) # Libraries (.so) - /usr/bin/strip --strip-debug "$binary";; + /usr/bin/strip --strip-debug "$binary" || true;; *application/x-archive*) # Libraries (.a) - /usr/bin/strip --strip-debug "$binary";; + /usr/bin/strip --strip-debug "$binary" || true;; *application/x-executable*) # Binaries - /usr/bin/strip "$binary";; + /usr/bin/strip "$binary" || true;; esac done fi