[pacman-dev] weird error when makepkg

[甘露(Gan Lu)]

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$s format anymore?
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> What is the line normally output after this?  That is the line that is
> failing.
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>> 2. other one is (report by others, I currently don't know what argue
>> he use 'makepkg'):
>> /usr/bin/makepkg: line 902: * 1024 : syntax error: operand expected
>> (error token is "* 1024 ")
>> the correspondent line in /usr/bin/makepkg is:  size="$((
>> ${size%%[^0-9]*} * 1024 ))"
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> 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?

> Allan
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