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@ninetailedtori : I suppose you tried to update to a newer version. You can't. This purpose of the package is to offer libtiff ABI v4 compatibility. Any newer version will provide a newer ABI version and may (will) fail at providing the proper binary interface expected from any app built against v4.

If you need a newer libtiff version or for the latest and greatest version, use the libtiff and lib32-libtiff pakages available in the official Extra and Multilib repos.

@City-busz : could you pin a comment about it? And I would suggest updating the PKGBUILD's description as I did for libtiff4. I also updated the patch to better mirror how the API vs ABI versioning differentiation was done by the devs.

@ninetailedtori : I suppose you tried to update to a newer version. You can't. This purpose of the package is to offer libtiff ABI v4 compatibility. Any newer version will provide a newer ABI version and may (will) fail at providing the proper binary interface expected from any app built against v4.

If you need a newer libtiff version or for the latest and greatest version, use the libtiff and lib32-libtiff pakages available in the official Extra and Multilib repos.

@City-busz : could you pin a comment about it? And I would suggest updating the PKGBUILD's description as I did for libtiff4. I also updated the patch to better mirror how the API vs ABI versioning differentiation was done by the devs.

Hunk failure (upstream change not reflected correctly in pkgbuild), please fix.

patching file configure.ac
Hunk #1 FAILED at 39.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file configure.ac.rej
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare().
    Aborting...
 -> error making: lib32-libtiff4-exit status 4

You don't want to overwrite files provided by native packages unless you add "conflicts" in PKGBUILD.

I looked at the libraries shipped with Steam itself. While "libtiff4" was a prerequisite at some point to provide SONAME version 3.9.X, it seems the latest Steam uses libtiff.so.4.3.4. Have a look under ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32

From what I've found going over the libtiff's commits, somewhere around version 4.0.0, the libtiff's developers changed the SONAME version not because they broke the API compatibility or the symbol version, but to support the library symbol versioning under GNU systems which was then optional for a time. It seems Steam was updated properly since then.

That being said, updating to the latest libtiff version could cause problem because the SONAME version was updated to 6.X.Y since version 4.5.0 because "SONAME version bumped to 6 due to changes in symbol versioning". I don't quite understand why the version was not updated at the same time. Steam ships with 4.3.4, so as long as a libtiff.so.4.X.Y is provided, it should be fine.

If libtiff-4 is to be updated, it may have to be limited to a version prior to 4.5.0 (SONAME version must match).

@voxan24: I reverted your changes. As aboldone stated, this package should provide the legacy libtiff 3.9.x version (libtiff.so.4), NOT the current 4.7.x version. Please don't upgrade this package to a newer version that provides a different soname.

@luis.brito: Your system will be broken if you overwrite those files. You should reinstall lib32-libtiff, and the old version of lib32-libtiff4.

To resolve conflicting file issues

yay -Syyuu --overwrite '*'

Just adding that I'm seeing the exact same error as amiablechief

Package (2)           Old Version  New Version  Net Change

lib32-libtiff4        3.9.7-6      4.7.1-1        0.17 MiB

lib32-libtiff4-debug               4.7.1-1        3.24 MiB



Total Installed Size:  3.80 MiB

Net Upgrade Size:      3.40 MiB



:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y

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error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)

lib32-libtiff4: /usr/lib32/libtiff.so.6 exists in filesystem (owned by lib32-libtiff)

lib32-libtiff4: /usr/lib32/libtiff.so.6.2.0 exists in filesystem (owned by lib32-libtiff)

lib32-libtiff4: /usr/lib32/libtiffxx.so.6 exists in filesystem (owned by lib32-libtiff)

lib32-libtiff4: /usr/lib32/libtiffxx.so.6.2.0 exists in filesystem (owned by lib32-libtiff)

lib32-libtiff4: /usr/lib32/pkgconfig/libtiff-4.pc exists in filesystem (owned by lib32-libtiff)

Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

The update to version 4.7.1 is incorrect and breaks the package.

This package should provide the legacy libtiff 3.9.x version (libtiff.so.4), NOT the current 4.7.x version.

Version 4.7.1 creates libtiff.so.6 which conflicts with multilib/lib32-libtiff: - lib32-libtiff (official multilib) provides libtiff.so.6 - lib32-libtiff4 (AUR) should provide libtiff.so.4 for legacy compatibility

Installing 4.7.1 fails with:

Error: Conflicting files lib32-libtiff4: /usr/lib32/libtiff.so.6 exists in filesystem (owned by lib32-libtiff)

Please revert to pkgver=3.9.7 with the old source URL or use a working mirror.

The package is a dependency of steam-native-runtime which requires BOTH lib32-libtiff (current) AND lib32-libtiff4 (legacy 3.9.x) to coexist.

patching file configure.ac
Hunk #1 FAILED at 39.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file configure.ac.rej

I'm also getting this issue with the build still.