FS#28069 - makepkg gives printf error when calling --help

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Atilla ÖNTAŞ (tarakbumba) - Monday, 23 January 2012, 16:18 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Tuesday, 31 January 2012, 04:07 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category General
Status Closed
Assigned To Allan McRae (Allan)
Dave Reisner (falconindy)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 4.0.1
Due in Version 4.0.2
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Package: pacman-4.0.1-4

When i call makekpg with --help switch it produces a printf error:

$ makepkg --help
makepkg (pacman) 4.0.1

Usage: /usr/bin/makepkg [options]

Options:
/usr/bin/makepkg: line 1929: printf: -A: option invalid
printf: usage: printf [-v var] format [arguments]
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Closed by  Dan McGee (toofishes)
Tuesday, 31 January 2012, 04:07 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Addressed on maint in commit 9e9835f4640a4; offending translations were also updated
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Monday, 23 January 2012, 16:26 GMT
Is a locale or language being used here? This doesn't make a whole lot of sense; why is printf trying to interpret the string as an option?
Comment by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Monday, 23 January 2012, 16:40 GMT
Nope, this makes sense.

$ printf --help
-bash: printf: --: invalid option
printf: usage: printf [-v var] format [arguments]

$ printf -- --help
--help

Definitely a locale/translation issue, though (which we can prevent from happening).
Comment by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Monday, 23 January 2012, 16:52 GMT
Sledgehammer approach.
   0001-makepkg-always-use-print... (7.4 KiB)

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