[pacman-dev] makepkg bug with epoch code

[Dave Reisner]

On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 08:52:55PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> Have not had time to look into this, but I get this error with the
> kernel26 PKGBUILD in Arch Linux [core] repo:
> 
> > makepkg -gc
> ==> Retrieving Sources...
>   -> Found linux-2.6.37.tar.bz2
>   -> Found patch-2.6.37-4-ARCH.bz2
>   -> Found config
>   -> Found config.x86_64
>   -> Found kernel26.preset
> ==> Generating checksums for source files...
> 
> md5sums=('c8ee37b4fdccdb651e0603d35350b434'
>          '732176aeb134678b4e369e1d5d5fca2e'
>          'cc49d27766f55df22f9cb78228880e78'
>          '8f8059fa252e2f81b31be0c1bdbef123'
>          '25584700a0a679542929c4bed31433b6')
> ==> Cleaning up...
> /usr/bin/makepkg: line 234: [[: 2.6.37: syntax error: invalid
> arithmetic operator (error token is ".6.37")
> 
> 
> Allan
> 
> 

epoch has its default initializer called on line 1862, but if -g is
specified, we're exiting (invoking clean_up where this happens) on line
1858 before this ever occurs. A simple fix would just be to move the
epoch initialization to right before the GENINTEG block on line 1852.

dave