On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 4:14 AM, Mark Lee <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Salutations, > > While debugging a libva-intel-driver issue, I found that makepkg was not > reporting failures to patch source files. Is there a reason behind this > behavior? > > Regards, > Mark > > P.S. Happy New Year! > > -- > Mark Lee <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx> makepkg does not do any patching by itself. Patch commands are given by the user, typically in the prepare() function. Since set -e is used, makepkg will abort if `patch` returns non-zero. What does your PKGBUILD look like?