Compiling Pacman on Debian System [SOLVED]

Question

Hi,
I am trying to compile pacman on a Debian system. I get the following error:
/bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -std=gnu99 -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -pedantic -D_GNU_SOURCE -fvisibility=internal -g -O2 -Wall -MT package.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/package.Tpo -c -o package.lo package.c
gcc -std=gnu99 -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -pedantic -D_GNU_SOURCE -fvisibility=internal -g -O2 -Wall -MT package.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/package.Tpo -c package.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/package.o
package.c: In function 'alpm_pkg_changelog_open':
package.c:529: warning: implicit declaration of function 'archive_read_open_filename'
package.c: In function 'alpm_pkg_changelog_close':
package.c:597: error: void value not ignored as it ought to be
make[1]: *** [package.lo] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/pacman-3.1.2/lib/libalpm'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
I tried a couple different versions of pacman and I always get this error. What could this be?
Thanks!
nagoola
Last edited by nagoola (2008-05-14 09:55:05)

Answer 1

It looks like you need libarchive > 2.  See this part of archive.c in v2.4.17
#if ARCHIVE_API_VERSION > 1
int archive_read_finish(struct archive *);
#else
/* Temporarily allow library to compile with either 1.x or 2.0 API. */
/* Erroneously declared to return void in libarchive 1.x */
void archive_read_finish(struct archive *);
#endif
So there was a change in the declaration of the function used on the offending line between libarchive versions.