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There is on the AUR this other abandoned PKGBUILD "pdsh-genders",

Repository                    : aur
Name                          : pdsh-genders
Version                       : 2.34-1
Description                   : Parallel Distributed Shell
URL                           : https://github.com/chaos/pdsh
Licenses                      : GPL
Groups                        : None
Provides                      : pdsh
Depends On                    : glibc  openssh  readline  genders
Optional Deps                 : perl
Make Deps                     : None
Check Deps                    : None
Conflicts With                : pdsh
Replaces                      : None
AUR URL                       : https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pdsh-genders
First Submitted               : Thu 04 Nov 2010 10:01:30 PM WET
Keywords                      : None
Last Modified                 : Sat 21 Mar 2020 02:04:25 PM WET
Maintainer                    : None
Popularity                    : 0.000000
Votes                         : 2
Out-of-date                   : Mon 05 Feb 2024 07:34:46 PM WET

It was already abandoned in 2020,

First Submitted: 2010-11-04 22:01 (UTC)
Last Updated:   2020-03-21 14:04 (UTC)

I'll submitt an AUR request to delete it from the AUR.

Notice that "pdsh-genders" had,

Depends On                    : glibc  openssh  readline  genders
Make Deps                     : None

Where as this, "pdsh" PKGBUILD has,

Depends On                    : openssh
Make Deps                     : autoconf

This PKGBUILD currently fails with,

config.status: executing libtool commands
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory '/dev/shm/aurydesty/pdsh/src/pdsh-2.35'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory '/dev/shm/aurydesty/pdsh/src/pdsh-2.35/src'
Making all in common
make[3]: Entering directory '/dev/shm/aurydesty/pdsh/src/pdsh-2.35/src/common'
  CC       err.lo
In file included from err.c:47:
macros.h:62:16: error: cannot use keyword ‘false’ as enumeration constant
   62 | typedef enum { false, true } bool;
      |                ^~~~~
macros.h:62:16: note: ‘false’ is a keyword with ‘-std=c23’ onwards
macros.h:62:30: error: expected ‘;’, identifier or ‘(’ before ‘bool’
   62 | typedef enum { false, true } bool;
      |                              ^~~~
macros.h:62:30: warning: useless type name in empty declaration
make[3]: *** [Makefile:492: err.lo] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/dev/shm/aurydesty/pdsh/src/pdsh-2.35/src/common'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:436: all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/dev/shm/aurydesty/pdsh/src/pdsh-2.35/src'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:509: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/dev/shm/aurydesty/pdsh/src/pdsh-2.35'
make: *** [Makefile:440: all] Error 2
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
 -> error making: pdsh-exit status 4
 -> Failed to install the following packages. Manual intervention is required:
pdsh - exit status 4

It was last touched in early 2024,

Name                          : pdsh
Version                       : 2.35-1
URL                           : https://github.com/chaos/pdsh
Last Modified                 : Tue 06 Feb 2024 11:18:12 AM WET
Maintainer                    : drrossum

But the repo, https://github.com/chaos/pdsh, has seen a lot of activity since then,

  2025-04-08 17:09  Merge pull request #168 from adrianreber
  2025-04-08 09:43  Fix multiple compiler warnings in mcmd.c
  2025-04-08 09:42  Fix "warning: ‘d’ may be used uninit
  2025-03-19 21:59  Merge pull request #167 from grondo/ci-u
  2025-03-19 21:56  build: add `--ignore-errors unused` to l
  2025-03-19 14:22  github: update ci actions versions
  2025-03-19 13:49  Merge pull request #166 from e4t/c23-fix
  2025-03-09 10:20  Fix build on C23 compiler (gcc >= 15)
  2024-12-29 14:13  Merge pull request #162 from chaos/mergi
  2024-12-29 04:05  ci(mergify): upgrade configuration to cu
  2024-08-23 22:19  Merge pull request #159 from grondo/host
  2024-08-23 21:28  common/hostlist: update to latest from l
  2024-08-23 21:21  Merge pull request #158 from chu11/hostl
  2024-08-23 20:03  common/hostlist: fix out of bounds array
  2023-12-19 18:54  Merge pull request #155 from grondo/news

Even if there wasnt a new release, maybe its time to review and check this PKGBUILD ???

Thanks for the fix @drrossum!

I left a bug report upstream. For now, please make sure that the directory is managed by git and has at least some versioning information (empty repo doesn't help).

It looks like an upstream bug, autoreconf -fiv or ./bootstrap.sh fails if the current directory is not (in) a git repository. That's why it works on @drrossum system who works in the PKGBUILD git repo. If you clone https://aur.archlinux.org/pdsh.git and use makepkg, it will work (but not as expected)

I have still issues installing the latest package. ``` ==> Making package: pdsh 2.32-1 (Wed Aug 30 11:42:49 CEST 2017) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Checking buildtime dependencies... ==> Retrieving sources... -> Downloading pdsh-2.32.tar.gz... % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 122 0 122 0 0 122 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 243 100 209k 0 209k 0 0 209k 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 5953k ==> Validating source files with md5sums... pdsh-2.32.tar.gz ... Passed ==> Extracting sources... -> Extracting pdsh-2.32.tar.gz with bsdtar ==> Starting build()... autoreconf: Entering directory `.' autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I config fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /) Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set). configure.ac:27: error: AC_INIT should be called with package and version arguments ```

Thanks! Fix pushed

The latest version does not compile natively: First the pdsh-2.32.tar.gz archive does not include a configure script --> this can be solved by issuing an "autoreconf -fiv" in the build() This implies to have a autoconf tools installed, maybe better bugging the original software provider. Then, the package() function tries to remove a "${pkgdir}/usr/sbin" dir which does not exists. Here is a short diff to survive until better... ''' diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD index 72c14be..2611641 100644 --- a/PKGBUILD +++ b/PKGBUILD @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ md5sums=('3af36658154e2983c9e4067f91672c54') build() { cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgname}-${pkgver}" + autoreconf -fiv ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man \ --without-rsh \ --with-ssh \ @@ -27,7 +28,7 @@ build() { package() { cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgname}-${pkgver}" make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}/" install || return 1 - rmdir "${pkgdir}/usr/sbin" + #rmdir "${pkgdir}/usr/sbin" } '''

This software is buildable also for armv7h just add 'armv7h' in the PKGBUILD please. Thanks!