If a comment in an INSTALL file contains the name of a valid INSTALL file function but the function itself is not present, pacman tries to execute that function. That leads to an error.
Ignore comments in the grep function in libalpm/trans.c to avoid such erros. Signed-off-by: Michael Straube <[email protected]> --- lib/libalpm/trans.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/lib/libalpm/trans.c b/lib/libalpm/trans.c index 60114882..7689079b 100644 --- a/lib/libalpm/trans.c +++ b/lib/libalpm/trans.c @@ -305,6 +305,7 @@ void _alpm_trans_free(alpm_trans_t *trans) static int grep(const char *fn, const char *needle) { FILE *fp; + char *ptr; if((fp = fopen(fn, "r")) == NULL) { return 0; @@ -314,6 +315,9 @@ static int grep(const char *fn, const char *needle) if(safe_fgets(line, sizeof(line), fp) == NULL) { continue; } + if((ptr = strchr(line, '#')) != NULL) { + *ptr = '\0'; + } /* TODO: this will not work if the search string * ends up being split across line reads */ if(strstr(line, needle)) { -- 2.12.1
