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@Musikolo it works now, perfect!

@renehsz, I understand now what the was.

Please, try again and let me know if the issue persists.

Thank you.

@Musikolo If your /bin/sh is symlinked to /bin/bash (which is default on Arch Linux, but can be changed), then the install.sh script runs fine, but if it is symlinked to a non-bash but still posix-compliant shell like dash, it will cause a syntax error. A possible fix is simply calling the script with bash instead of sh to make sure it always runs with bash:

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<   sh install.sh --prefix="${_install_dir}"
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>   bash install.sh --prefix="${_install_dir}"

@renehsz, if you know a way to solve that issue, please feel free to share a possible fix. Since I don't know what exact issue you are having, I'm unable to solve it.

Thank you.

I think the install.sh script doesn't seem to work with a posix compliant but non-bash shell. So it should either be called with bash or the bashisms should be removed. I might be wrong though...

Updated to version 4.2.10.23938.

Enjoy!

@rku, yes, it is required. This is what you get when qt4 is missing:

[musikolo@MyPC ~]$ bcompare 
Some Shared Libraries were not found
        linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffe3f6f4000)
        librt.so.1 => /usr/lib/librt.so.1 (0x00007fcd9397a000)
        libbz2.so.1.0 => /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007fcd93967000)
        lib7z.so => /usr/lib/beyondcompare/lib7z.so (0x00007fcd9352b000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fcd9350a000)
        libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007fcd93345000)
        libdl.so.2 => /usr/lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fcd93340000)
        libQt4Pas.so.5 => /usr/lib/beyondcompare/libQt4Pas.so.5 (0x00007fcd92f31000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00007fcd92df2000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007fcd92bdb000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fcd92a4b000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fcd92a31000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 => /usr/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fcd939c5000)
        libQtGui.so.4 => not found
        libQtNetwork.so.4 => not found
        libQtCore.so.4 => not found
        libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007fcd92a05000)
        libm.so.6 => /usr/lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007fcd928bf000)
        libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x00007fcd928ba000)
        libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x00007fcd928b2000)

Is qt4 dependency required? qt4 is no longer in repos so it pulls in a lengthy build from aur.

@nathanandelson, you should find current and old versions of bcompare at https://bit.ly/2XOI3rt

In keeping with the strace output you shared, I noticed a lot errors at the end of the trace when accessing the bash.mo file. I'm not getting those errors when I run strace bcompare in my machine. I'm not sure if it could be related with the locale or something like that.

I hope it helps.

@Musikolo, unfortunately scooter software doesn't seem to host older versions of beyond compare, so I can't running one of those. If you have a previous version stored somewhere you could share with me, that would be great. You can email me at my username at gmail.com.

I posted strace output as a gist https://gist.github.com/nathanalderson/74b415d243ff98574eeda00b76a957e6 in case anyone wants to take a look.