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Well... now we can see what happens if one decides: "Ah, it's fine. I can skip building in a clean chroot" :D Building works if bemenu is already installed...
In regards on the comment with users/aur pkg managers. Those are unsupported and I only need to care about makepkg.
If you have a patch available, we can talk about it. And later the day I will look again at this mess..

screw it, even community packaged wrong, it should ask for install wayland/ncurses/x11.

this package also wrong as it should depends on wayland/ncurses/x11 and let users/aur pkg managers to install one of them.

where is "bemenu-renderer-git"? can't build this package.

Will later update this PKGBUILD. I plan to closely follow the PKGBUILD from the repo, which means split packages.
Voices against such a change? Please with reasons :)

I have triggered this package to become orphaned, so a new volunteer can adopt it and update it.

Dunno if this ever worked for you but for me it just can't find the renderers due to misused PREFIX. Should be

 build() {
   35     cd "$_pkgname"
~  36     make PREFIX="/usr"
   37 }
   38 
   39 package_bemenu-git() {
   40     cd "$_pkgname"
~  41     make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" PREFIX="/usr" install
+  42     make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" PREFIX="/usr" install-renderers
   43 }

wayland-protocols should be in makedepends not optdepends. We only need it at compile time.

wayland-scanner private-code < "$(pkg-config --variable=pkgdatadir wayland-protocols)/stable/xdg-shell/xdg-shell.xml" > lib/renderers/wayland/xdg-shell.c
wayland-scanner private-code < lib/renderers/wayland/wlr-layer-shell-unstable-v1.xml > lib/renderers/wayland/wlr-layer-shell-unstable-v1.c
wayland-scanner client-header < lib/renderers/wayland/wlr-layer-shell-unstable-v1.xml > lib/renderers/wayland/wlr-layer-shell-unstable-v1.h
/bin/sh: $(pkg-config --variable=pkgdatadir wayland-protocols)/stable/xdg-shell/xdg-shell.xml: No such file or directory
make: *** [GNUmakefile:68: lib/renderers/wayland/xdg-shell.c] Error 1

Seems like missing makedepends wayland-protocols

This should do it:

# Maintainer: Danny Bautista <pyrolagus at gmail.com>
# Contributor: elvirolo <elvirolo@posteo.net>

pkgname=bemenu-git
pkgver=r373.6343a65
pkgrel=1

pkgdesc='Dynamic menu library and client program inspired by dmenu with support for wayland compositors.'
url='https://github.com/Cloudef/bemenu'
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
license=('GPL3' 'LGPL3')
depends=('pango')
makedepends=('git' 'libxkbcommon' 'libxinerama' 'wayland')
optdepends=('wayland: For the wayland backend.'
            'libxkbcommon: For the wayland backend.'
            'libxinerama: For the x11 backend.'
            'ncurses: For the curses backend.')

provides=('bemenu')
conflicts=('bemenu')

source=('git://github.com/Cloudef/bemenu')

md5sums=('SKIP')

pkgver() {
    cd bemenu
    printf 'r%s.%s' "$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" "$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)"
}

build() {
    cd bemenu
    make PREFIX=/usr
}

package() {
    cd bemenu
    make install PREFIX=/usr DESTDIR="$pkgdir"
}

Build is broken (looks like it doesn't use cmake anymore, there's a GNUmakefile in the sources now):

CMake Error: The source directory does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt.

I can't build this package under wayland. the -DBEMENU_X11_RENDERER=ON requires X11, and setting it to OFF still triggers lot of errors like "Package 'xproto', required by 'x11', not found".

I didn't have any problem installing community/bemenu, and I couldn't find a way to tweak bemenu-git's PKGFILE to install successfully. Guess I'll have to wait a bit more before I can use bemenu --line-height.

I can't post the build output right now but this might be dependent on the AUR helper being used. I am using pikaur.

That's odd. The build output does say "-- Could NOT find Doxygen (missing: DOXYGEN_EXECUTABLE)", but the build still succeeds as it should. Could you link the build output here? Also, sorry for the late answer, I really need to improve my email workflow.

Not sure if anything changed upstream, but does this package now require doxygen in makedepends?

I was not able to build until I installed doxygen. (Build would fail at find_doxygen step.)

I wrote an email already but didn't get a reply, so I'll write a comment here as well:

First of all, you should update the pkgver or pkgrel, so that AUR helpers automatically pull the new PKGBUILD. And it would also be nice if you could add -DBEMENU_WAYLAND_RENDERER=ON as suggested by ElVirolo. bemenu should still run under X with that option enabled afaik, but you should still test it first to be sure.

PS: If the email address listed on your profile is out-of-date, you should change it.

For Wayland support, one should add -DBEMENU_WAYLAND_RENDERER=ON at the end of the "cmake" line.

Has anyone tried to contact the maintainer?

==> Starting pkgver()... ==> ERROR: pkgver is not allowed to contain colons, forward slashes, hyphens or whitespace. ==> ERROR: pkgver() generated an invalid version: r273.0.1.0-7-g8ad07cf

This can be fixed by replacing

printf 'r%s.%s' "$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" "$(git describe --always)"

with

printf "r%s.%s" "$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" "$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)"

true, this works, thanks cauebs! it does not provide a desktop file so it is visible in gnome, you know how to do this one?

@cauebs thanks for pointing this out! I just tried to install it. Adding a '.' at the end of the cmake invocation (in the PKGBUILD file) works well.

I think the cmake invocation in the build step is missing the path as a positional argument. Adding '.' at the end does the job.