On 25/01/12 09:45, masutu wrote:

(i) zipman option in "/etc/makepkg.conf"

if zipman is enabled in "/etc/makepkg.conf", makepkg gives errors like

[...] ==> Tidying install... -> Purging unwanted files... -> Compressing man and info pages... ==> ERROR: An unknown error has occurred. Exiting... [...]

when running as root (yaourt/makepkg). Surprisingly man pages do get gzipped and work correctly, so no real problem, just wondering. When running makepkg as normal user, this error message doesn't occur. Similar issue is discussed in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1046860.

I can replicate this issue only when running makepkg as root... So why does this line fail when running as root but not as a user: IFS=$'\n' read -rd '' -a hardlinks < \ <(find "${MAN_DIRS[@]}" \! -name "$file" -samefile "$manpage" 2>/dev/null) || true It is the find line that is causing this issue due to non-existent directories in MAN_DIRS. We used to have a "|| true" after the actual find command to stop that but it got removed when switching to using "read". Allan