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If the check fails there is little I can do about it as it most likely needs to be fixed upstream, in such cases report those upstream (maybe wait a day or two as sometimes it's quickly solved upstream) or skip the check with makepkg --nocheck if you don't care about the functionality that is being reported as failing in the check.

For quite some time now using freeecad-git has a problem.

It builds fine. But there are issues with Qt6 in FreeCAD.

Some are visual, like panel labels having '&' some where in the name, for example &Task or Python C&onsole.

But Task panel goes into a "zombie" state after almost any error is reported. It won't return to normal (for instance actually displaying the task view) until a restart or (and only sometimes) after the file is saved. When Task view is zombie'd if a dialog that requires an Ok/Cancel to go away is hidden can't have any interaction, thus FreeCAD is basically unusable until restart.

The weekly appimage works as expected.

If FC with Qt6 is not to be resolved for the foreseeable future, maybe freecad-git needs to be suspended, or at least noted it will build, but usability is questionable in the AUR description.

Maybe the package name can get a rename to 1.1.0-dev or something instead of 0.22.xxx ?

opencamlib should probably be an optional dependency? It's used in the CAM workbench and is also an optional dependency of the freecad package in extra.

The last day or so the build has failed. Not sure if this is local to me or not:

In file included from /usr/include/c++/14.2.1/random:48,
                 from /usr/include/boost/uuid/detail/random_device.hpp:65,
                 from /usr/include/boost/uuid/detail/random_provider.hpp:9,
                 from /usr/include/boost/uuid/basic_random_generator.hpp:11,
                 from /usr/include/boost/uuid/random_generator.hpp:10,
                 from /usr/include/boost/uuid/uuid_generators.hpp:14,
                 from /var/tmp/pamac-build-mac/freecad-git/src/FreeCAD/src/Mod/TechDraw/App/Geometry.cpp:26:
/usr/include/c++/14.2.1/bits/random.h:1717:37: note: 'std::mt19937' declared here
 1717 |     0xefc60000UL, 18, 1812433253UL> mt19937;
      |                                     ^~~~~~~
/var/tmp/pamac-build-mac/freecad-git/src/FreeCAD/src/Mod/TechDraw/App/Geometry.cpp:1412:63: error: template argument 1 is invalid
 1412 |     static boost::uuids::basic_random_generator<boost::mt19937> gen(&ran);
      |                                                               ^
/var/tmp/pamac-build-mac/freecad-git/src/FreeCAD/src/Mod/TechDraw/App/Geometry.cpp:1412:70: error: 'ran' was not declared in this scope; did you mean 'tan'?
 1412 |     static boost::uuids::basic_random_generator<boost::mt19937> gen(&ran);
      |                                                                      ^~~
      |                                                                      tan
/var/tmp/pamac-build-mac/freecad-git/src/FreeCAD/src/Mod/TechDraw/App/Geometry.cpp:1414:14: error: 'gen' cannot be used as a function
 1414 |     tag = gen();
      |           ~~~^~
[4189/6116] Automatic MOC and UIC for target FreeCADGui
AutoMoc: /var/tmp/pamac-build-mac/freecad-git/src/FreeCAD/src/Gui/UiLoader.h: note: No relevant classes found. No output generated.
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

It appears that freecad-git only randomly is seen as changing.

If I force a build with, for example, yay, it get the latest git version, but package managers don't see updates automatically (or randomly see it).

The check fails, so has be commented out in PKGBUILD to get yay to not error out and install the build.

There also seems to be QT6 issues in the UI that are not present in builds on other OS's (Debian) where QT5 is used.

Most of this is just passing on FYI.

FYI: fix for the installation issue https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/pull/16105

@adrianinsaval it appears that we need to add the dependency ifcopenshell

That will fix the exception:

raceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/freecad/Mod/BIM/nativeifc/ifc_observer.py", line 85, in slotChangedDocument
    from nativeifc import ifc_tools  # lazy import
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/freecad/Mod/BIM/nativeifc/ifc_tools.py", line 32, in <module>
    from importers import exportIFC
  File "/usr/lib/freecad/Mod/BIM/importers/exportIFC.py", line 42, in <module>
    from importers import exportIFCHelper
  File "/usr/lib/freecad/Mod/BIM/importers/exportIFCHelper.py", line 27, in <module>
    import ifcopenshell
<class 'ModuleNotFoundError'>: No module named 'ifcopenshell'

(note that I can't actually build ifcopenshell right now)

Haven't seen an update since 38242.

The github version is at 38323.

AFAIK freecad doesn't use fast_float and I haven't had any trouble besides that warning compiling without it so I don't see much benefit on adding it. I'm happy to add it if I'm wrong

For a good compilation seems, when using OpemMP, that there is an unspecified dependency with package fast_float (current version is 6.1.0-2), I would specify it in depend, before the line openmp1

otherwise there is this warning:

...
-- Found OpenMP: TRUE (found version "4.5")
CMake Warning at /usr/lib/cmake/vtk/VTK-vtk-module-find-packages.cmake:3130 
(find_package):
By not providing "FindFastFloat.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project
has asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by
"FastFloat", but CMake did not find one.

Could not find a package configuration file provided by "FastFloat"
(requested version 6.1.0) with any of the following names:

  FastFloatConfig.cmake
  fastfloat-config.cmake

Add the installation prefix of "FastFloat" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
"FastFloat_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files.  If
"FastFloat" provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has
been installed.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
 /usr/lib/cmake/vtk/vtk-config.cmake:159 (include)
 cMake/FreeCAD_Helpers/SetupSalomeSMESH.cmake:59 (find_package)
 CMakeLists.txt:72 (SetupSalomeSMESH)