[swift-users] Building Swift 3 under ArchLinux

[Ryan Lovelett]

I'll also plug my repo: https://github.com/RLovelett/swift-aur
 
I use this to build from source on Arch.
 
On Sun, Jul 17, 2016, at 03:44 PM, Farhan Ahmed via swift-users wrote:
> Thank you Andrés. I will take a look at those packages from the AUR.
>
> Best,
> Farhan
>
>> On Jul 16, 2016, at 9:34 PM, Andrés Botero via swift-users <swift-
>> users at swift.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hello.
>>
>> I've never tried building from the Swift repository, and I think you
>> don't need to do it either.
>>
>> What I do is just installing from the AUR, if you install the 'swift'
>> package it will compile the last release for you, if you install 'swift-
>> bin' it will repackage the ubuntu binary for arch.
>>
>> If you want to try Swift 3 (I have done this), there are the 'swift-
>> development' and 'swift-development-bin' which will repackage the
>> ubuntu binary or compile from source respectively.
>>
>> ----
>> Andrés.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 2016-07-16 at 21:23 -0700, Farhan Ahmed via swift-
>> users wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am hoping someone would be able to help with the following
>>> problem:
>>>
>>> I am trying to build Swift 3 under ArchLinux. I have followed the
>>> build instructions and everything has been cloned and kick off the
>>> build by typing: ./swift/utils/build-script -R
>>>
>>> After a long while the build errors out at (emphasis mine):
>>>
>>> copying static files... done copying extra files... done dumping
>>> search index in English (code: en) ... done dumping object
>>> inventory... done build succeeded.
>>> [574/574] Generating swift.1
>>> *FAILED: docs/tools/swift.1 cd /home/insha/build/Ninja-ReleaseAssert/swift-linux-
>>> x86_64/docs/tools && /usr/bin/core_perl/pod2man --section 1 --center
>>> Swift\ Documentation --release --name swift --stderr
>>> /home/insha/swift/docs/tools/swift.pod > /home/insha/build/Ninja-ReleaseAssert/swift-linux-
>>> x86_64/docs/tools/swift.1 Can't open swift: No such file or
>>> directory at /usr/bin/core_perl/pod2man line 70. ninja: build
>>> stopped: subcommand failed. ./swift/utils/build-script: fatal error:
>>> command terminated with a non-zero exit status 1, aborting*
>>>
>>> So what am I doing wrong? What can I do to either fix this issue or
>>> skip it if it is not essential (i.e. docs, etc.)? Any help and
>>> pointers would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Best,
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