[pacman-dev] weird error when makepkg

[甘露(Gan Lu)]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:50 PM, 甘露(Gan Lu) <rhythm.gan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:40 PM, 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="$((
>>>>>>> ${size%%[^0-9]*} * 1024 ))"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is due to the cw package.  That provides a "du" with coloured
>>>>>> output that breaks the calculation of the size.
>>>>> Is this a bug?
>>>>
>>>> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19865
>>>> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19932
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>> Attached please see the modified version to fix above problem, could
>> you check it out and apply, thanks.
>>
> Ooh, the error is still here (I tested again with -sifr after I
> replaced my modified translation), though I am quite sure I have
> changed all %1$s alike, maybe something else caused that?
>
Oops, sorry for my carelessness, I just copied pacman.zh_CN.mo instead
of pacman.mo, so error is still here. I have retested with new
translation, all works great now, thanks.