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... but forgot about it just like you did.

Yeah, big mistake on my part. Lesson learned, see also my comments, https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtypist

Okay, I removed it then. :) No worries, I appreciate your input anyway.

I was aware of the base-devel metapackage but forgot about it just like you did.

Happy typing!

I'll add "which" to build dependencies soon. 

Please dont.

It should not explicityly be needed nor stated as a dependency. I made a mistaken assumption. Sorry for the trouble.

"Which" is one tool, part of the meta-package "base-devel".

$ pacman -Si base-devel

Repository      : core
Name            : base-devel
Version         : 1-2
Description     : Basic tools to build Arch Linux packages
Architecture    : any
URL             : https://www.archlinux.org
Licenses        : GPL
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : archlinux-keyring  autoconf  automake  binutils  bison
                  debugedit  fakeroot  file  findutils  flex  gawk  gcc
                  gettext  grep  groff  gzip  libtool  m4  make  pacman
                  patch  pkgconf  sed  sudo  texinfo  which
Optional Deps   : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Download Size   : 2.05 KiB
Installed Size  : 0.00 KiB
Packager        : Antonio Rojas <arojas@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Fri 06 Sep 2024 08:08:35 PM WEST
Validated By    : SHA-256 Sum  Signature

Actually Archlinux does "assume" that if you use AUR PKGBUILDS you should have this meta-package installed and all its members, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository#Getting_started

Prerequisites

First, ensure that the necessary tools are installed by installing
base-devel; this meta package has make and other tools needed for
compiling from source, listed as dependencies.

Note: Packages in the AUR assume that base-devel is installed in the
build environment.

So any member of that group should be implicitly assumed to exist. And not needed to be stated explicitly as dependency.

@m040601, I believe the issue is resolved. Thanks again for your report.

Hello @m040601,

Thanks for the report. I'm not the most qualified person to maintain a package, so your explanation of the problem is appreciated. I'll add "which" to build dependencies soon. Even though I heard your comment about "which" being considered deprecated, if the git source uses it, I feel there's not much we can do about it other than add it as a dependency.

grep -n -C 3 which autogen.sh

85-
86-# Copy gettext.h from gettext install
87-
88:gettext_exe=`which gettext`
89-gettext_bin=`dirname $gettext_exe`
90-gettext_home=`dirname $gettext_bin`
91-gettexth=$gettext_home/share/gettext/gettext.h

This PKGBUILD is missing one dependency, the tool "which" needed by "autogen.sh"

Repository      : core
Name            : which
Version         : 2.23-1
Description     : A utility to show the full path of commands
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/which/
Licenses        : GPL-3.0-or-later
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : bash  glibc
Optional Deps   : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Download Size   : 15.98 KiB
Installed Size  : 30.49 KiB
Packager        : Tobias Powalowski <tpowa@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Mon 24 Feb 2025 09:14:17 AM WET
Validated By    : SHA-256 Sum  Signature

Whithout that this is what happens,

==> Starting build()...
Checking for required tools...
./autogen.sh: line 88: which: command not found

Yeah, I dont have "which" anymore on my system. It has been considered deprecated by many.

dirname: missing operand
Try 'dirname --help' for more information.
dirname: missing operand
Try 'dirname --help' for more information.
Couldn't find gettext.h
Looking for gettext.h in /usr/ ...
find: ‘/usr/share/factory/etc/audit/plugins.d’: Permission denied

**Error**: Can not find gettext.h on your system.
Get ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.12.1.tar.gz
(or a newer version if it is available)
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
 -> error making: gtypist-git-exit status 4

If I install "which" first then the PKGBUILD works.

pacman -Si which

Repository      : core
Name            : which
Version         : 2.23-1
Description     : A utility to show the full path of commands
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/which/
Licenses        : GPL-3.0-or-later
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : bash  glibc
Optional Deps   : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Download Size   : 15.98 KiB
Installed Size  : 30.49 KiB
Packager        : Tobias Powalowski <tpowa@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Mon 24 Feb 2025 09:14:17 AM WET
Validated By    : SHA-256 Sum  Signature

Hi @Scaramouche, Weird, none of my systems has gengetopt installed and yet this AUR package used to work. I'll investigate later today, right now it seems that GNU savannah is down.

EDIT: You were absolutely right, I bumped version and included dependency. Thanks very much for your input!

Hi mctom,

there's a missing dependency on gengetopt, please add it to PKGBUILD.