[pacman-dev] Build issues with the maint branch of pacman

[Allan McRae]

Ciprian Dorin, Craciun wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun
>> <ciprian.craciun at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>>    But then why does it fail when building it from PKGBUILD? (I've
>>> used an unmodified version of PKGBUILD from ABS (for version 3.3.1),
>>> with the soure code from 3.3.2.)
>>>       
>> Why are you doing that ?
>>     
>
>     Because I've made a small patch to pacman that allows to
> "download" tars from a Git repository. See the related bug, and my Git
> repository (if interested):
>     * http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7816
>     * http://gitorious.org/~ciprian.craciun/pacman/ciprian-craciun-patches
>
>     Thus after making the patch I've wanted to install it localy, test
> and use it. (I'm using it now.)
>
>
>   
>> And how did you get the source code of 3.3.2 ?
>> With this link : ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/other/pacman/pacman-3.3.2.tar.gz ?
>>     
>
>     From the Pacman git repository at: git://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git
>   

So that brings us full circle to thae top of this message:

>>Thus the problem was that inside the PKGBUILD for pacman, asciidoc
>> was not specified as a make-dependency. After adding it there (and
>> installing it), everything was completed successfully.
>>

>
> It is not needed for building for the release tarballs.  Hence it is not in
> the PKGBUILD.
>
> Allan


    But then why does it fail when building it from PKGBUILD? (I've
used an unmodified version of PKGBUILD from ABS (for version 3.3.1),
with the soure code from 3.3.2.)