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PSA: coreboot-utils is now a split package. Remove it if you already have it installed, then install each tool you might need individually.

That Makefile is an upstream one, right? So it seems an upstream bug. That said, a sed command in prepare() is required, otherwise this package doesn't build, :(

Perhaps @slact has an account on their bug tracker system, https://ticket.coreboot.org, and can file the bug on them... I once wrote to their general mailing list, and never got a reply back, :(

BTW, thanks a lot @Parker8283. Here it's the sed addition to prepare():

prepare() {
  cd "coreboot-$pkgver"
  patch -p0 < ../ifdtools-nowerror.patch
  sed -i 's|CFLAGS  ?=|CFLAGS  +=|' util/intelmetool/Makefile
}

I am unable to build the intelmetool on my system, as I get the following output:

==> Starting build()...
make: Entering directory '/home/parker/.cache/yay/coreboot-utils/src/coreboot-4.22.01/util/amdfwtool'
make: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make: Leaving directory '/home/parker/.cache/yay/coreboot-utils/src/coreboot-4.22.01/util/amdfwtool'
make: Entering directory '/home/parker/.cache/yay/coreboot-utils/src/coreboot-4.22.01/util/cbfstool'
make: Leaving directory '/home/parker/.cache/yay/coreboot-utils/src/coreboot-4.22.01/util/cbfstool'
make: Entering directory '/home/parker/.cache/yay/coreboot-utils/src/coreboot-4.22.01/util/cbmem'
make: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make: Leaving directory '/home/parker/.cache/yay/coreboot-utils/src/coreboot-4.22.01/util/cbmem'
make: Entering directory '/home/parker/.cache/yay/coreboot-utils/src/coreboot-4.22.01/util/ectool'
make: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make: Leaving directory '/home/parker/.cache/yay/coreboot-utils/src/coreboot-4.22.01/util/ectool'
make: Entering directory '/home/parker/.cache/yay/coreboot-utils/src/coreboot-4.22.01/util/ifdtool'
make: '../ifdtool/ifdtool' is up to date.
make: Leaving directory '/home/parker/.cache/yay/coreboot-utils/src/coreboot-4.22.01/util/ifdtool'
make: Entering directory '/home/parker/.cache/yay/coreboot-utils/src/coreboot-4.22.01/util/intelmetool'
cc -march=native -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -fexceptions         -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat -Werror=format-security         -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection   -c -o me_status.o me_status.c

Checking for development libraries: pci and zlib... me_status.c:4:10: fatal error: commonlib/bsd/helpers.h: No such file or directory
    4 | #include <commonlib/bsd/helpers.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make: *** [<builtin>: me_status.o] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
found.
make: Leaving directory '/home/parker/.cache/yay/coreboot-utils/src/coreboot-4.22.01/util/intelmetool'
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

After some investigation, it is likely due to the Makefile for intelmetool doing a ?= for CFLAGS, and since makepkg sets its own CFLAGS, the CFLAGS in intelmetool do not get set. Unsure if this is an upstream bug or a something that this package should patch (or maybe this is user error?)

I got around this by simply changing the ?= to a +=, and it compiled fine after that. Unsure if that's the best solution, but it's what I did.

Really good to see a non git version. Cloning and fetching from coreboot is really hard on bad internet connections... Thanks a lot !