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@Schlaefer

Well it builds fine on my fairly recent pc with 64gb ram. But if there's a second objection then I'll revert.

Update to 14.4 introduced make -j in PKGBUILD which removes the thread limit. Aside from hitting the CPU it also gobbles up a lot of RAM making it hard to build.

For all those subscribed: This package now builds and installs correctly. No more compilation errors because of a missing gtk patch.

/tmp is on tmpfs. That should default to 8GB (50% of total RAM) which sounds quite generous.

Anyway, I tried again after a reboot and it installed correctly, so maybe there was content left in /tmp consuming space. Thanks for the reply.

@Incans

Have you tried doing a clean rebuild in your home directory? It looks like your /tmp folder is out of space.

Failed to build for a different reason- permissions

It seems the package was updated yesterday, and that appears to have raised a new problem- permissions errors in the /tmp directory.

I have tried installing via both pacseek and yay, which produce basically the same errors. I am logged in as a user who has admin rights, i.e. I am a member of the wheel group and can provide the password to elevate (sudo) when required, but the install process fails before I have been asked for the password.

Error Output (pacseek)

... ==> Sources are ready. ==> Making package: freefilesync 14.2-3 (Wed 12 Mar 2025 16:12:25 GMT) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Checking buildtime dependencies... ==> WARNING: Using existing $srcdir/ tree ==> Starting build()... Assembler messages: Fatal error: can't create /tmp/FreeFileSync_Make/ffs/src/config.cpp.o: Permission denied Assembler messages: Fatal error: can't create /tmp/FreeFileSync_Make/ffs/src/application.cpp.o: Permission denied Assembler messages: Fatal error: can't create /tmp/FreeFileSync_Make/ffs/src/base_tools.cpp.o: Permission denied base/algorithm.cpp:1677:13: warning: TODO: some users want to manually fix renamed folders/files: combine them here, don't require a re-compare! 1677 | warn_static("TODO: some users want to manually fix renamed folders/files: combine them here, don't require a re-compare!") | ^ make: *** [Makefile:128: /tmp/FreeFileSync_Make/ffs/src/base_tools.cpp.o] Error 2 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make: *** [Makefile:127: /tmp/FreeFileSync_Make/ffs/src/config.cpp.o] Error 2 make: *** [Makefile:127: /tmp/FreeFileSync_Make/ffs/src/application.cpp.o] Error 2 ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting... -> error making: freefilesync-exit status 4 -> Failed to install the following packages. Manual intervention is required: freefilesync - exit status 4

exit status 1 Press ENTER to return to pacseek

Error Output (yay)

==> Sources are ready. ==> Making package: freefilesync 14.2-3 (Wed 12 Mar 2025 16:17:08 GMT) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Checking buildtime dependencies... ==> WARNING: Using existing $srcdir/ tree ==> Starting build()... Assembler messages: Fatal error: can't create /tmp/FreeFileSync_Make/ffs/src/application.cpp.o: Permission denied Assembler messages: Fatal error: can't create /tmp/FreeFileSync_Make/ffs/src/config.cpp.o: Permission denied Assembler messages: Fatal error: can't create /tmp/FreeFileSync_Make/ffs/src/base_tools.cpp.o: Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/tmp/FreeFileSync_Make/ffs/src/afs/’: Permission denied make: *** [Makefile:127: /tmp/FreeFileSync_Make/ffs/src/afs/abstract.cpp.o] Error 1 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make: *** [Makefile:127: /tmp/FreeFileSync_Make/ffs/src/base_tools.cpp.o] Error 2 make: *** [Makefile:127: /tmp/FreeFileSync_Make/ffs/src/config.cpp.o] Error 2 make: *** [Makefile:127: /tmp/FreeFileSync_Make/ffs/src/application.cpp.o] Error 2 ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting... -> error making: freefilesync-exit status 4 -> Failed to install the following packages. Manual intervention is required: freefilesync - exit status 4

Package failed to build. Maybe the same root cause as discussed in earlier comments (developer making changes without updating the source rev. number). however the errors seem to be different-

==> Starting build()... In file included from config.h:12, from config.cpp:7: ../../wx+/darkmode.h:19:27: error: ‘Appearance’ in ‘class wxApp’ does not name a type 19 | using ColorTheme = wxApp::Appearance; //why reinvent the wheel? | ^~ compilation terminated due to -Wfatal-errors. make: *** [Makefile:127: /tmp/FreeFileSync_Make/ffs/src/config.cpp.o] Error 1 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... In file included from config.h:12, from application.h:13, from application.cpp:7: ../../wx+/darkmode.h:19:27: error: ‘Appearance’ in ‘class wxApp’ does not name a type 19 | using ColorTheme = wxApp::Appearance; //why reinvent the wheel? | ^~ compilation terminated due to -Wfatal-errors. make: *** [Makefile:127: /tmp/FreeFileSync_Make/ffs/src/application.cpp.o] Error 1 In file included from config.h:12, from base_tools.h:12, from base_tools.cpp:7: ../../wx+/darkmode.h:19:27: error: ‘Appearance’ in ‘class wxApp’ does not name a type 19 | using ColorTheme = wxApp::Appearance; //why reinvent the wheel? | ^~ compilation terminated due to -Wfatal-errors. make: *** [Makefile:127: /tmp/FreeFileSync_Make/ffs/src/base_tools.cpp.o] Error 1 ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting... -> error making: freefilesync-exit status 4 -> Failed to install the following packages. Manual intervention is required: freefilesync - exit status 4

The reason I posted at all is because I tried freefilesync-bin and it is calling for multi-lib (32bit) dependency's that I find undesirable. Others may feel the same. Thanks for the clarification though. I only need the binary.

That's for the binary release, this package that you're commenting on is for the source release. The binary release that you're referencing can be installed using the package freefilesync-bin. This package requires a patched libgtk or something to be built. The last 2 or 3 versions have been failing because of this.

Hopefully this is not offensive to anybody, but freefilesync (with easy install script) can be found here: https://freefilesync.org