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Here's a patch to fix the build failure with GCC 14+ (nullptr keyword conflict in C23/gnu23 default mode):

diff -u cdesktopenv-old/PKGBUILD cdesktopenv/PKGBUILD
--- cdesktopenv-old/PKGBUILD
+++ cdesktopenv/PKGBUILD
@@ -70,10 +70,19 @@
             '1db4036888515de17a4b49d7f5ca3d34a5d601cc8696f603b390e98283197125'
             '8a7ba3b3856d4ef05c5703abd8e779df577c6b91931d3d0cc5f04d15dc665d57')

+prepare() {
+   cd "cde-$pkgver"
+   # ksh93 uses 'nullptr' as a variable name, which conflicts with
+   # the C23 nullptr keyword that GCC 14+ reserves in gnu23 (default) mode.
+   # Rename it so the code compiles with gnu17+ standards.
+   sed -i 's/\bnullptr\b/null_ptr/g' programs/dtksh/ksh93/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/xec.c
+}
+
 build() {
    cd "cde-$pkgver"
    ./autogen.sh
-   export CC='gcc -std=c90'
+   export CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -std=gnu17"
+   export CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -std=gnu17"
    export TIC="/usr/bin/tic -o${pkgdir}/usr/dt/share/terminfo"
    ./configure --with-gnu-ld
    make LDFLAGS=-lm

xorg-fonts-misc is a missing dependency. CDE won't start without this package installed.

And it seems that setting LANG=C is no longer needed in startcdesession.sh.

updated to 2.5.3...

@mikearch I am able to build the -git package. The current release will not build with new MESA due to the new C attribute annotation hardening. I have posted the diffs on the page for the -git package.

Where to start...it will not build. Here is a pastebin

I could only make 2.5.1-1 build by changing in src/code/cde/programs/dtterm/Makefile:

tic dtterm.ti

to

sudo tic dtterm.ti

Then I rebuilt it with:

makepkg -RL

I asssume that the person doing the build checks is running make with sudo, so the permission error won't show up for them.

yay is complaining that dtterm isn't installed along with other dt programs. my understanding was installing ksh from the aur should install these?

It seems like this package requires the separate installation of the "libxpm" and "libxaw" packages in order to correctly build. Are there currently any plans to add these packages to the build dependencies?

Here's a patch to update the package to 2.5.1:

diff -u cdesktopenv-old/.SRCINFO cdesktopenv/.SRCINFO
--- cdesktopenv-old/.SRCINFO    2022-08-25 07:57:08.000000000 -0700
+++ cdesktopenv/.SRCINFO    2022-10-08 13:11:52.591553353 -0700
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 pkgbase = cdesktopenv
    pkgdesc = CDE - Common Desktop Environment
-   pkgver = 2.5.0
+   pkgver = 2.5.1
    pkgrel = 1
    url = http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/
    install = cdesktopenv.install
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
    makedepends = ncompress
    makedepends = bison
    makedepends = rpcsvc-proto
+   makedepends = xorg-mkfontscale
+   makedepends = xorg-bdftopcf
    depends = xorg-server-devel
    depends = gcc
    depends = dnsutils
@@ -29,7 +31,7 @@
    options = !strip
    options = !zipman
    backup = etc/dt/config/xfonts/C/fonts.alias
-   source = git+https://git.code.sf.net/p/cdesktopenv/code#tag=2.5.0
+   source = git+https://git.code.sf.net/p/cdesktopenv/code#tag=2.5.1
    source = cdesktopenv.install
    source = dtlogin.service
    source = fonts.alias
diff -u cdesktopenv-old/PKGBUILD cdesktopenv/PKGBUILD
--- cdesktopenv-old/PKGBUILD    2022-08-25 07:57:08.000000000 -0700
+++ cdesktopenv/PKGBUILD    2022-10-08 13:01:38.320867036 -0700
@@ -3,10 +3,11 @@
 # Submitter: Ecmel Ercan <ecmel dot ercan at gmail dot com>
 # Contributor: Vain <aurmaint1 on host: uninformativ dot de>
 # Contributor: BlindPenguin <ferdinand holzner at gmail dot com>
+# Contributor: Johnothan King <johnothanking dot protonmail at com>
 # Thanks goes to yjftsjthsd for https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cdesktopenv-git/ PKGBUILD.
 #
 pkgname=cdesktopenv
-pkgver=2.5.0
+pkgver=2.5.1
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="CDE - Common Desktop Environment"
 url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/"
@@ -15,7 +16,7 @@
 options=(!strip !zipman)
 install="cdesktopenv.install"
 depends=(xorg-server-devel gcc dnsutils libxinerama libxss ncurses openmotif rpcbind xbitmaps flex ksh opensp)
-makedepends=(tcl ncompress bison rpcsvc-proto)
+makedepends=(tcl ncompress bison rpcsvc-proto xorg-mkfontscale xorg-bdftopcf)
 optdepends=('xorg-fonts-100dpi: additional fonts'
             'cups: for printing support'
             'xinetd: for rpc services')
@@ -36,7 +37,6 @@
          '2e5557241915e4c2761ba136dbcba469')
 build() {
   cd "$srcdir/code/cde/"
-  sed -i '15 a setv mam_cc_FLAGS -lm\nsetv mam_libm -lm' programs/dtksh/ksh93/src/cmd/ksh93/Mamfile
   ./autogen.sh
   ./configure
   make
@@ -69,4 +69,3 @@
   install -Dm644 "$srcdir/startxsession.sh" \
         "$pkgdir/usr/bin/startxsession.sh"
 }
-

Answering myself on:

cp: cannot stat '/usr/dt/share/cde/fontaliases/mixed.alias': No such file or directory

This seems to be now fixed in cde v2.5.1