| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/awesome-git.git (read-only, click to copy) |
|---|---|
| Package Base: | awesome-git |
| Description: | Highly configurable framework window manager |
| Upstream URL: | https://awesomewm.org/ |
| Licenses: | GPL2 |
| Conflicts: | awesome |
| Provides: | awesome, notification-daemon |
| Submitter: | noonov |
| Maintainer: | trollixx (actionless) |
| Last Packager: | actionless |
| Votes: | 227 |
| Popularity: | 0.000154 |
| First Submitted: | 2007-11-22 16:01 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2026-04-07 04:17 (UTC) |
Update 04/09: official package lua53-lgi 0.9.2-14 contains now the fix mentioned in the defect below and awesome works out of the box now by default with glib 2.88.
Regarding the glib 2.88.0 issue, there is also a defect opened on the arch side:
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/lgi/-/work_items/4
for me downgrading glib2 as a temporary workaround helped to get at least awesome starting.
@actionless
Yeah I did not want to imply that, just pointing people to the fix.
@nabakolu: As per this issue [1], awesome is currently not working with glib 2.88.0. [1] https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/issues/4094
that slightly funny that opening the link you referring to would clearly state that awesomewm have nothing to do with that
As per this issue [1], awesome is currently not working with glib 2.88.0. It seems the arch has updated glib2 to this version, so I had to roll back to an older version of glib2 to start awesome.
@resupply_stillne
please check
quick fix, probably not ideal, but after installing lua54-lgi, this got awesome-git running again for me:
diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index f582a43..384d869 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
_pkgname=awesome
pkgname=${_pkgname}-git
-pkgver=4.3.1683.g691e36425
+pkgver=4.3.1735.gfa805ab46
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc='Highly configurable framework window manager'
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ build() {
mkdir -p build
cd build
cmake ../$pkgname \
+ -DGENERATE_DOC=OFF \
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE \
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
-DSYSCONFDIR=/etc \
i still have update of certain packages, including lua, frozen, so i can't test the update myself, but if someone would share a working patch i can merge it (the one shared below doesn't look ok, as it does weird seds which shouldn't be needed there)
minimum required work to get this building and awesome starting again:
install lua54-lgi
patch the cmake args to add -DGENERATE_DOC=OFF
you could use awesome-luajit-git and luajit-lgi/luajit-lgi-git before situation would become more clear after lua54->55 upgrade in Arch
i also added there _BUILD_DOCS env var there, so it could be built without ldoc
Lua 5.5 brought more than just build issues.
ldoc isn't working at all because the version packaged by Arch is archaic - 1.5.0 was released 2023-05-03 and the maintainers haven't bothered to release new version since, although they have quite a lot of changes in master.
Below I'm suggesting a patch that will fix the build of awesome-git, provided you don't have ldoc installed as ldoc-git from AUR is broken as well.
If you really need the docs as well, you can build ldoc from my WiP branch -- https://gitlab.archlinux.org/tzvetkoff/ldoc/-/tree/lua55
P.S. Another option would be to add -DGENERATE_DOC=OFF to cmake args, this will completely disable documentation. You'd still need to apply the patch for picking the correct lua version, though.
diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index f582a43..c1502b8 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -9,27 +9,29 @@
_pkgname=awesome
pkgname=${_pkgname}-git
-pkgver=4.3.1683.g691e36425
+pkgver=4.3.1732.gf1388f9fc
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc='Highly configurable framework window manager'
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url='https://awesomewm.org/'
license=('GPL2')
depends=('cairo' 'dbus' 'gdk-pixbuf2' 'libxdg-basedir' 'libxkbcommon-x11'
- 'lua' 'lua-lgi' 'pango' 'startup-notification' 'xcb-util-cursor'
+ 'lua54' 'lua54-lgi' 'pango' 'startup-notification' 'xcb-util-cursor'
'xcb-util-keysyms' 'xcb-util-wm' 'xcb-util-xrm' 'libxfixes')
-makedepends=('asciidoctor' 'cmake' 'docbook-xsl' 'git' 'imagemagick' 'ldoc'
- 'xmlto')
+makedepends=('asciidoctor' 'cmake' 'docbook-xsl' 'git' 'imagemagick' 'xmlto')
optdepends=('rlwrap: readline support for awesome-client'
'dex: autostart your desktop files'
'xcb-util-errors: for pretty-printing of X11 errors'
'librsvg: for displaying SVG files without scaling artifacts'
+ 'ldoc: for building documentation'
)
provides=('notification-daemon' 'awesome')
conflicts=('awesome')
backup=('etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua')
-source=("$pkgname::git+https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome.git")
-md5sums=('SKIP')
+source=("$pkgname::git+https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome.git"
+ ldoc-lua55.patch)
+md5sums=('SKIP'
+ '79c3cabe832aef411f5a329035deeb6e')
_LUA_VER=5.4
pkgver() {
@@ -37,6 +39,16 @@ pkgver() {
git describe | sed 's/^v//;s/-/./g'
}
+prepare() {
+ cd "${pkgname}"
+ sed -i 's/COMMAND lua /COMMAND lua5.4 /' awesomeConfig.cmake
+ sed -i 's/LUA_EXECUTABLE lua /LUA_EXECUTABLE lua5.4 /' awesomeConfig.cmake
+ sed -i 's| lua | lua5.4 |;s/lua)/lua5.4)/' tests/examples/CMakeLists.txt
+ sed -i '1s|/usr/bin/env lua$|/usr/bin/env lua5.4|' build-utils/check_for_invalid_requires.lua
+ sed -i 's/"lua"/"lua5.4"/' tests/test-spawn.lua
+ patch -Np1 -i ../ldoc-lua55.patch
+}
+
build() {
mkdir -p build
cd build
@@ -45,7 +57,7 @@ build() {
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
-DSYSCONFDIR=/etc \
-DLUA_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include/lua${_LUA_VER} \
- -DLUA_LIBRARY=/usr/lib/liblua.so.${_LUA_VER} \
+ -DLUA_LIBRARY=/usr/lib/liblua${_LUA_VER}.so \
-DLUA_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/lua${_LUA_VER} \
-DCMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5
make
diff --git a/ldoc-lua55.patch b/ldoc-lua55.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6f7aa14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ldoc-lua55.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff --git a/docs/ldoc.ltp b/docs/ldoc.ltp
+index dd7c88d3b..2bd0c94e2 100644
+--- a/docs/ldoc.ltp
++++ b/docs/ldoc.ltp
+@@ -614,6 +614,7 @@
+ # end
+
+ # for kind, mods in ldoc.kinds() do
++# local kind = kind
+ <h2>$(kind)</h2>
+ # kind = kind:lower()
+ <table class="module_list">
Pinned Comments
actionless commented on 2026-03-24 16:13 (UTC)
you could use
awesome-luajit-gitandluajit-lgi/luajit-lgi-gitbefore situation would become more clear after lua54->55 upgrade in Archi also added there
_BUILD_DOCSenv var there, so it could be built withoutldoctrollixx commented on 2016-12-27 08:30 (UTC)