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In reply to ValdikSS comment:

Note that Epson license (COPYING.EPSON) imposes many restrictions, such as personal and internal business usage only, prohibition of distribution of the software, and "you agree not to place the Software onto or into a shared environment accessible via a public network such as the Internet or otherwise accessible by others outside the single [physical] location"

Yes, which is why the Epson Inkjet printer driver 2 for ESC/P-R or "epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2" is only available as a PKGBUILD. Only the PKGBUILD is publicly available, not the driver itself, but with it everyone can easily obtain and build the driver for themselves. The license is not for the PKGBUILD. To uphold the Epson license however, the PKGBUILD references it correctly, and it is every ones own responsibility to respect Epson's license and to comply with it.

With every release I update the keywords (see Package Details above) containing a list of all Epson printer series supported by this driver. Additionally, SUPPORTED-PRINTERS at the GitLab repository gitlab.com/at.gentoo.repo/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2 also contains a list of supported printers.

Most Epson Inkjet printers are covered by either this package or epson-inkjet-printer-escpr. If your printer is not supported by this package, be sure to check the other one. You may also want to consult the Wiki, specifically CUPS and CUPS/Printer-specific problems#Epson.

Note: all packages from AUR require base-devel, please read Arch User Repository as a user or PKGBUILD#makedepends for details on PKGBUILD.

Building epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2... ==> Making package: epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2 1.1.13-1 (Sat 25 Jul 2020 12:16:49 PM EEST) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Checking buildtime dependencies... ==> Retrieving sources... -> Downloading epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2-1.1.13-1lsb3.2.src.rpm... % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:02 --:--:-- 0 curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found ==> ERROR: Failure while downloading https://download3.ebz.epson.net/dsc/f/03/00/11/33/72/48e6a853e518a1bedaee575113e087c0bd5d6e2e/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2-1.1.13-1lsb3.2.src.rpm Aborting... Failed to build epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2

I've updated the package locally. Feel free to grab the patch: https://github.com/bboozzoo/pkgbuilds/commit/6b57599373e3ed8f6c4e229d14fe4e191a91dafa

test0: Why don't you just click on the upstream URL and see for yourself? See also here.

Does it work for my Epson WF-3725 printer? Any raccomandations to follow prior to install this package? Thanks.

@AngryUbuntuNerd I figured out what the problem was. My system (uname -r --> 5.5.13-1-MANJARO) has the following default LDFLAGS configured in /etc/makepkg.conf:

LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,-z,now,-fuse-linker-plugin

Removing those flags gets the package to compile flawlessly. Kind of sad that the default flags fail just like that :(

Related post on manjaro forums: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/usr-bin-ld-f-may-not-be-used-without-shared/133289

@AngryUbuntuNerd thank you very much for the answer, I'll look into it

I just tried again with a freshly updated Arch Linux (x86_64) and it works:

checking whether the C compiler works... yes

Either a problem with your PC, or there is a dependency missing. Let me know.

makepkg fails with

checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/home/alberto/build/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2/src/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2-1.1.9':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details

Is it a problem in the package or in my computer?

Interesting part of the config.log:

configure:3228: $? = 0
configure:3217: gcc -v >&5
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/9.2.1/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Configured with: /build/gcc/src/gcc/configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-pkgversion='Arch Linux 9.2.1+20200130-2' --with-bugurl=https://bugs.archlinux.org/ --enable-languages=c,c++,ada,fortran,go,lto,objc,obj-c++,d --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --with-system-zlib --with-isl --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-clocale=gnu --disable-libstdcxx-pch --disable-libssp --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-linker-build-id --enable-lto --enable-plugin --enable-install-libiberty --with-linker-hash-style=gnu --enable-gnu-indirect-function --enable-multilib --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-default-pie --enable-default-ssp --enable-cet=auto gdc_include_dir=/usr/include/dlang/gdc
Thread model: posix
gcc version 9.2.1 20200130 (Arch Linux 9.2.1+20200130-2) 
configure:3228: $? = 0
configure:3217: gcc -V >&5
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-V'
gcc: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
configure:3228: $? = 1
configure:3217: gcc -qversion >&5
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-qversion'; did you mean '--version'?
gcc: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
configure:3228: $? = 1
configure:3248: checking whether the C compiler works
configure:3270: gcc -march=native -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -fno-plt -flto=8 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,-z,now,-fuse-linker-plugin conftest.c  >&5
/usr/bin/ld: -f may not be used without -shared
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:3274: $? = 1
configure:3312: result: no

Now up to 1.1.9