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Thanks Foucault. It does seem to be a linking error - conky trying to install some objects that already exist. I'm not sure why conky-lua-nv doesn't work for me. First of all, converting my old syntax to the new is problematic, then my cpu lua rings don't render (literally frozen) and the ${top mem 1} function renders inf (infinite memory). But conky19 I don't have any problem (except for building it now). I appreciate the help.

OK it's obviously a linking error. This does not explain why (or when) it started appearing when it used to build properly. I can't debug now but I'll see what I can do. Bear in mind that this is still unmaintained software and it's not expected to build forever even after patches.

Thanks for your reply Foucault. I actually had conky19-nv-lua installed at first and it was working fine. I then decided to update to conky-nv-lua and it didn't work very well. Some of the lua scripyts were not rendering properly so I decided to go back to conky19.

I'm not entirely sure whjat is preventing the build since as I said it was already working before. I believe it has something to do with /usr/bin/ld and here are some of them:

/usr/bin/ld: conky-specials.o:(.bss+0x18): multiple definition of ifup_strictness'; conky-ibm.o:(.bss+0x0): first defined here /usr/bin/ld: conky-temphelper.o:(.bss+0x0): multiple definition ofifup_strictness'; conky-ibm.o:(.bss+0x0): first defined here /usr/bin/ld: conky-timeinfo.o:(.bss+0x4): multiple definition of ifup_strictness'; conky-ibm.o:(.bss+0x0): first defined here /usr/bin/ld: conky-algebra.o:(.bss+0x0): multiple definition ofifup_strictness'; conky-ibm.o:(.bss+0x0): first defined here /usr/bin/ld: conky-proc.o:(.bss+0x0): multiple definition of ifup_strictness'; conky-ibm.o:(.bss+0x0): first defined here /usr/bin/ld: conky-user.o:(.bss+0x0): multiple definition ofifup_strictness'; conky-ibm.o:(.bss+0x0): first defined here /usr/bin/ld: conky-top.o:(.bss+0x0): multiple definition of `ifup_strictness'; conky-ibm.o:(.bss+0x0): first defined here

Unless you require conky 1.9 for some reason, I suggest you try conky-lua-nv instead. That being said could you please provide some more errors because as it it's not very useful?

I am trying to install this package but I am getting these errors:

collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: [Makefile:685: conky] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/brightchip/.cache/yay/conky19-lua-nv/src/conky-1.9.0/src' make[1]: [Makefile:583: all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/brightchip/.cache/yay/conky19-lua-nv/src/conky-1.9.0/src' make: *** [Makefile:471: all-recursive] Error 1 ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). ' Any help?

Yup all good now, thanks Foucault for maintaining!

Build should be working now.

Anyone else getting any weird errors RE lua lately? Not sure when it started but suddenly conky stopped working throwing a bunch of errors related to unable to parse lua in the scripts/conkyrc's, when I tried reinstalling this package it's not able to finish configuring as it can't seem to find tolua++ even though it is definitely installed, any ideas?

checking for tolua++... no
checking for tolua++5.1... no
checking for tolua++-5.1... no
configure: error: tolua++, tolua++5.1, or tolua++-5.1 is required for Lua extras.

% pacman -Qs tolua
community/tolua++ 1.0.93-2
Tool to integrate C/C++ code with Lua

//edit:
Also note lua, lua51, and lua52 all installed as well. Weird as no major/minor version increases in anything lua related recently that I can tell, only the following which look to be more patch/bugfix release but maybe something interfered, also tried compiling on another computer with a working conky-lua but same issue (when building conky19-lua-nv)
[2015-11-27 18:47] [ALPM] upgraded tolua++ (1.0.93-1 -> 1.0.93-2)
[2015-12-03 13:47] [ALPM] upgraded lua (5.3.1-1 -> 5.3.2-1)

this seems to be the best package providing conky 1.9.x atm.
(anyway, i use nvidia, so for me it is)
and i managed to tweak the PKGBUILD so that i can install it alongside conky 1.10
i think this will be necessary for some time, because the new and old syntax are incompatible.
here it is: http://pastebin.com/6QbZMtBD
it's not perfect, but mainstream conky does not complain when i installed it after this one.
provides a "conky19" binary in your $PATH, and some other "conky19" files.

[SOLVED]

Thank you Foucault ! Installed perfectly. Really appreciate the fast response.
Regards
Toppy