Package Details: alttab 1.7.1-3

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/alttab.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: alttab
Description: The task switcher for minimalistic window managers or standalone X11 session
Upstream URL: https://github.com/sagb/alttab
Licenses: GPL-3.0-only
Submitter: tallero
Maintainer: envolution
Last Packager: envolution
Votes: 5
Popularity: 0.071188
First Submitted: 2023-04-10 17:05 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-07-13 11:39 (UTC)

Latest Comments

envolution commented on 2025-07-13 11:40 (UTC)

wups, fixed - cheers

matthiash commented on 2025-07-13 09:25 (UTC)

When I try to upgrade from 1.7.1-1 to 1.7.1-2 it fails with:

==> Starting prepare()...
autoreconf: export WARNINGS=
autoreconf: Entering directory '.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal 
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Intltool
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gtkdoc
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader
autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --no-force
autoreconf: Leaving directory '.'
==> Sources are ready.
==> Making package: alttab 1.7.1-2 (sön 13 jul 2025 11:24:01)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> WARNING: Using existing $srcdir/ tree
==> Removing existing $pkgdir/ directory...
==> Starting build()...
/home/matthias/.cache/yay/alttab/PKGBUILD: line 29: /configure: No such file or directory
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
 -> error making: alttab-exit status 4
 -> Failed to install the following packages. Manual intervention is required:
alttab - exit status 4

I looked in PKGBUILD, is it possible that there's a slight error with the path to configure, that it should be ./configure instead of /configure?

envolution commented on 2025-07-12 15:23 (UTC)

@matthiash try yay -S alttab --rebuild

matthiash commented on 2025-07-12 12:55 (UTC)

Compilation fails with the following error for me.

alttab.c: In function ‘grabKeysAtStartup’:
alttab.c:536:25: error: too many arguments to function ‘getOffendingModifiersMask’; expected 0, have 1
  536 |     g.ignored_modmask = getOffendingModifiersMask(dpy); // or 0 for g.debug
      |                         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~
In file included from alttab.c:31:
util.h:69:14: note: declared here
   69 | unsigned int getOffendingModifiersMask();
      |              ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
make[2]: *** [Makefile:380: alttab.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/matthias/.cache/yay/alttab/src/alttab-1.7.1/src'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:370: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/matthias/.cache/yay/alttab/src/alttab-1.7.1'
make: *** [Makefile:311: all] Error 2
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
 -> error making: alttab-exit status 4
 -> Failed to install the following packages. Manual intervention is required:
alttab - exit status 4