Build failure

[janszafranski]

Describe the bug

I'm running a clean install of EndeavourOS on bare metal, and have tried installing it via yay, pacseek, as instructed, and it always fails in the build (using the 3 lines of code in the terminal... after the [makepkg -si] line

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. In Terminal, Enter [git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/linutil.git]
2. Then change directory to [linutil]
3. Then run [makepkg -si]
4. See error...

= note: some extern functions couldn't be found; some native libraries may need to be installed or have their path specified
= note: use the -l flag to specify native libraries to link
= note: use the cargo:rustc-link-lib directive to specify the native libraries to link with Cargo (see https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/build-scripts.html#rustc-link-lib)

error: could not compile linutil_tui (bin "linutil") due to 1 previous error
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
Aborting...

Expected behavior

Not to error, and instead complete installation

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• [/] This issue is present on both stable and development branches.

[cartercanedy]

Do you mind verifying that you have pulled the most recent commits?

Edit:
I just saw that you are using the AUR distribution, I believe that there was an issue with building from source in that release. Those build issues have been resolved upstream, so I would advise doing a shallow clone of the github repo directly and building from the most recent commit

[janszafranski]

@cartercanedy Thanks for that.I should've added I'm a noob at this... can you tell me how to do "a shallow clone of the github repo directly and building from the most recent commit". Sorry for being so inept

[cartercanedy]

Make sure that you have the rust toolchain installed (instructions here)

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/christitustech/linutil.git

cd into the linutil directory and run cargo run --profile release to run the optimized build

[janszafranski]

Sorry again... do I still do the [makepkg -si] again?

[janszafranski]

I got a cargo error: error: rustup could not choose a version of cargo to run, because one wasn't specified explicitly, and no default is configured.

[cartercanedy]

might have to run rustup toolchain install stable

[janszafranski]

Also couldn't install rustchain, got error: error: cannot install while Rust is installed

[cartercanedy]

try rustup default stable

[janszafranski]

Just did (followed what it said onscreen ) it errored, did it again and it installed. re-ran the [cargo run --profile release] again and the terminal cleared and loaded linutil. Does this mean that it's installed locally?

[janszafranski]

You've been great/very patient BTW

[cartercanedy]

To get the linutil binary installed locally, run cargo install --path ./tui in the root dir of the repo

[adamperkowski]

@janszafranski We're aware the AUR packages might not always work. It's because the last 2024.09.22 and 2024.09.23 have broken dependencies. We're now waiting for the next stable release. I'm sorry I forgot to remove 2024.09.23 from the AUR. I will do that now.

[janszafranski]

Thanks for the update :-) BTW... where is the root dir of the repo (sorry for being so dumb... steep learning curve ahead)

[cartercanedy]

where is the root dir of the repo

the linutil directory that git cloned the repository into

no worries, we like to see that people are able to use and abuse the tools. That's why we're here :)