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Old 11-15-2011
It's being fed no files, and refuses to create an empty archive. Try leaving off the | xargs ... and see what it prints.
 

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ZIP_SET_ARCHIVE_COMMENT(3)				     Library Functions Manual					ZIP_SET_ARCHIVE_COMMENT(3)

NAME
zip_set_archive_comment - set zip archive comment LIBRARY
libzip (-lzip) SYNOPSIS
#include <zip.h> int zip_set_archive_comment(struct zip *archive); "const char *comment" "int len" DESCRIPTION
The zip_set_archive_comment function sets the comment for the entire zip archive. If comment is NULL and len is 0, the archive comment will be removed. RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion 0 is returned. Otherwise, -1 is returned and the error information in archive is set to indicate the error. ERRORS
zip_set_archive_comment fails if: [ZIP_ER_INVAL] len is less than 0 or longer than the maximum comment length in a zip file (65535). [ZIP_ER_MEMORY] Required memory could not be allocated. SEE ALSO
libzip(3), zip_get_archive_comment(3), zip_get_file_comment(3), zip_set_file_comment(3) AUTHORS
Dieter Baron <dillo@giga.or.at> and Thomas Klausner <tk@giga.or.at> NiH October 26, 2007 ZIP_SET_ARCHIVE_COMMENT(3)
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