[pacman-dev] weird error when makepkg

[Dan McGee]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:40 AM, 甘露(Gan Lu) <rhythm.gan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:14 PM, 甘露(Gan Lu) <rhythm.gan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 2010/6/24 甘露(Gan Lu) <rhythm.gan at gmail.com>:
>>>> 2010/6/24 Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>:
>>>>> On 24/06/10 18:02, 甘露(Gan Lu) wrote:
>>>>>> there are two reports related to my translation (Chinese simplified),
>>>>>> but I can't find any similar items in my po file, so I ask here for
>>>>>> help:
>>>>>> 1. when makepkg with -sifr， there are error in finishing:
>>>>>> ==>  完成创建：plymouth-git 20100624-1 (2010年 06月 24日 星期四 15:48:46 CST)
>>>>>> /usr/bin/makepkg: line 93: printf: `$': invalid format character
>>>>>> the correspondent line in /usr/bin/makepkg is:  printf
>>>>>> "${GREEN}==>${ALL_OFF}${BOLD} ${mesg}${ALL_OFF}\n" "$@">&2
>>>>>> sorry for Chinese but this error only occurs in zh_CN environment, C
>>>>>> or en_US.UTF-8 works well.
>>>>
>>>> When with -c argue, makepkg works well and message is normal like:
>>>>
>>>> ==> 完成创建：plymouth-git 20100624-1 (2010年 06月 24日 星期四 20:03:06 CST)
>>>> ==> 正在清理...
>>>>
>>>> Could this be possibly related to gettext not support %1$s format anymore?
>>>
>>> You've made this very same mistake before, command line gettext
>>> doesn't support position parameters...
>>> http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=5ffc1ad3cdb1ec252739c62c9d614aba468bb22c
>> Oh, I know that, in fact I don't change all translation but only that
>> one, there are eventually many such translation existing in Chinese po
>> file, I will try to fix all later, however I am still wonder why -c
>> argue doesn't be affected?
>>>
>>>>> What is the line normally output after this?  That is the line that is
>>>>> failing.
>>>>>
>>>>>> 2. other one is (report by others, I currently don't know what argue
>>>>>> he use 'makepkg'):
>>>>>> /usr/bin/makepkg: line 902: * 1024 : syntax error: operand expected
>>>>>> (error token is "* 1024 ")
>>>>>> the correspondent line in /usr/bin/makepkg is:  size="$((
>>>>>> ${size%%[^0-9]*} * 1024 ))"
>>>>>
>>>>> This is due to the cw package.  That provides a "du" with coloured
>>>>> output that breaks the calculation of the size.
>>>> Is this a bug?
>>>
>>> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19865
>>> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19932
>>>
>>>
>>
> Attached please see the modified version to fix above problem, could
> you check it out and apply, thanks.

Applied to maint, thanks.