[pacman-dev] weird error when makepkg

[Allan McRae]

On 24/06/10 22:09, 甘露(Gan Lu) wrote:
> 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?

Possibly.  gettext never supported the use of %1$s for bash.

>>
>> 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/19932