[pacman-dev] weird error when makepkg

[Dan McGee]

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

>> 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