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Circle dependencies in yaourt - gcc-gcj-ecj and gcc63-gcj

flex is part of base-devel which must be installed to build any AUR package.

core/flex is required to build this package. The following additional line in PKGBUILD works for me: makedepends=('flex')

valandil is 100% right. Either use the binary version of pdftk or add pdftk (and dependencies) to the IgnorePkg line in your /etc/pacman.conf . pdftk in itself (meaning the source code) doesn't get updated very often.

Are you not using pdftk-bin? Also, this doesn't take long to compile, nor pdftk. gcc63 does. Also, /etc/pacman.conf has a nice feature called IgnorePkg which will let you skip updating these packages automatically if you are tired of pressing "n" when using pacaur. Update it manually when it stops working. Cheers,

UPDATE: OK, I resolved this to my satisfaction, as follows (original comment, further below). [victoria@victoria ~]$ pacaur -Ss pdftk | grep -i installed aur/pdftk-bin 2.02_4_b2-3 (250, 4.97) [installed] After a few rounds of sudo pacman -Sc ## remove all cached, non-installed packages sudo pacman -Qdt ## list all packages no longer required as dependencies (orphans) sudo pacman -R $(pacman -Qdtq) ## ... and delete them (equivalent to Ubuntu's 'apt-get autoremove') ... all appears to be well. Among the "old" packages removed were gcc-objc gcc-go gcc-gcj-ecj gcc-ada ... which was very likely causing my problem. After clearing those old packages from my cache, I was again able to update my computer, within seconds. :-D Again, I am very appreciative of the efforts in maintaining these packages, given the headaches endured from users like me! ;-) Best, V. :-) -------------------------------- [Earlier:] This morning gcc-gcj-ecj appeared in my AUR updates (pacaur) and is AGAIN (see my comments in https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pdftk/#comment-602180) causing a TORTUOUS, very extended update (package build)! ... [I eventually, manually killed the update process via Ctrl-C interrupt.] I really do appreciate the efforts, and I love (!) pdftk, but now I am waiting for this package to update (all 8 CPU cores @~40-50%!), before I can get back to (CPU-intensive) work.

Ok, but what does that accomplish? Do other packages depend on the existence of these symlinks?

Maybe this package should provide some symlinks like eclipse-ecj does. package() { install -D -m644 $srcdir/ecj-${pkgver}.jar $pkgdir/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj-${pkgver}.jar install -D -m755 $srcdir/ecj1 $pkgdir/usr/bin/ecj1 cd $pkgdir/usr/share/java/ ln -s eclipse-ecj-${pkgver}.jar "${pkgdir}/usr/share/java/ecj.jar" ln -s eclipse-ecj-${pkgver}.jar "${pkgdir}/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar" }

Thanks, I updated the pkg.

makepkg tries to extract the jar, which leads to a fatal error: -> Extracting ecj-4.9.jar with bsdtar META-INF/: Can't replace existing directory with non-directory org/: Can't replace existing directory with non-directory ... The fix is: noextract=("ecj-${pkgver}.jar")