For debugging PKGBUILDs, and for reporting build failures upstream, it is very important to know the exact commands that are executed leading up to a problem. By using `set -x` and an appropriate value for PS4, commands are logged before they are executed. An example logfile snippet which hopefully shows the usefulness of this
On 07/02/2013 09:40 PM, Alain Kalker wrote: patch: ---[file: libxcb-1.9.1-1-x86_64-build.log]--- $ cd /home/miki/pkg/abs/extra/libxcb/src/libxcb-1.9.1 $ patch -Np1 -i /home/miki/pkg/abs/extra/libxcb/src/libxcb-1.1-no-pthread-stubs.patch patching file configure.ac Hunk #1 succeeded at 42 (offset 7 lines). $ patch -Np1 -i /home/miki/pkg/abs/extra/libxcb/src/libxcb-1.9.1-configure-ac-reorder.patch patching file configure.ac $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --enable-xinput --enable-xkb --disable-static autoreconf: Entering directory `.' [...] ---[end: libxcb-1.9.1-1-x86_64-build.log]--- Kind regards, Alain Kalker