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Note that before installing this package (& ANY OTHER AUR PACKAGE), it's mandatory to install a base-devel meta package

@deemon Please make sure you cleaned all related cache and synced to latest version.

CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/sh /home/deemon/.cache/yay/gnome-icon-theme/src/gnome-icon-theme-3.12.0/missing aclocal-1.14 -I m4 
/home/deemon/.cache/yay/gnome-icon-theme/src/gnome-icon-theme-3.12.0/missing: line 81: aclocal-1.14: command not found
WARNING: 'aclocal-1.14' is missing on your system.
         You should only need it if you modified 'acinclude.m4' or
         'configure.ac' or m4 files included by 'configure.ac'.
         The 'aclocal' program is part of the GNU Automake package:
         <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake>
         It also requires GNU Autoconf, GNU m4 and Perl in order to run:
         <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf>
         <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
         <http://www.perl.org/>
make: *** [Makefile:402: aclocal.m4] Error 127
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
 -> error making: gnome-icon-theme
$ aclocal --version                                                                             
aclocal (GNU automake) 1.16.5
Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
       and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>.

what now? why it wants me to have some specific prehistoric aclocal?

Note that before installing this package (& ANY OTHER AUR PACKAGE), it's mandatory to install a base-devel meta package

I found that this can also happen if you have self-installed Perl modules from cpan with version conflicts with the installed system Perl. In this case, I was able to get the build to succeed to unsetting Perl environment variables in my shell:

env PERL5LIB= PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT= cpulimit -i -l 100 yay --aur -Syu
...
==> Starting build()...
aclocal.m4:17: warning: this file was generated for autoconf 2.69.
You have another version of autoconf.  It may work, but is not guaranteed to.
If you have problems, you may need to regenerate the build system entirely.
To do so, use the procedure documented by the package, typically 'autoreconf'.
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a race-free mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
...

Original issue from @IMBJR:

Getting the following on a build attempt:

... ==> Starting build()... aclocal.m4:17: warning: this file was generated for autoconf 2.69. You have another version of autoconf. It may work, but is not guaranteed to. If you have problems, you may need to regenerate the build system entirely. To do so, use the procedure documented by the package, typically 'autoreconf'. sh: line 1: aclocal: command not found autoreconf: error: aclocal failed with exit status: 127 ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting...

The version of autoconf is currently 2.71-1

@FiestaLake That worked, thanks.

@IMBJR Did you install base-devel package?

Getting the following on a build attempt:

... ==> Starting build()... aclocal.m4:17: warning: this file was generated for autoconf 2.69. You have another version of autoconf. It may work, but is not guaranteed to. If you have problems, you may need to regenerate the build system entirely. To do so, use the procedure documented by the package, typically 'autoreconf'. sh: line 1: aclocal: command not found autoreconf: error: aclocal failed with exit status: 127 ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting...

The version of autoconf is currently 2.71-1

@MarsSeed Thanks for info

Also, gtk-update-icon-cache is not needed as a dependency at all. (It is already a dependency of gtk2/3/4 and is invoked via pacman hooks when the user installs icons.)