[pacman-dev] [Fwd: [arch-general] PKGBUILD and DOS line endings]

[Dan McGee]

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Should we be handling this issue?

I feel like a slightly more descriptive failure message wouldn't hurt.
Is it easy to handle? Someone would need to do some playing.

-Dan

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:        [arch-general] PKGBUILD and DOS line endings
> Date:   Sat, 6 Dec 2008 15:32:26 +0100
> From:   Alessandro Doro <ordo.ad at gmail.com>
> Reply-To:       General Discusson about Arch Linux
> <arch-general at archlinux.org>
> To:     arch-general at archlinux.org
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> I found in AUR a PKGBUILD with DOS line endings.
> See what happens:
>
> $ makepkg
> : command not found
>
> ==> ERROR: An unknown error has occured. Exiting...
>
>
> makepkg simply sources "$BUILDSCRIPT" and bash treats '\r' literally.
>
> The PKGBUILD maintainer is surely to be blamed and I don't think that
> `makepkg' should try to catch this error (sorry for some innocent user).
>
> Just wanted to expose this "feature".
>
> bye
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