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Updated.

V4.17.5.5 will not compile unless a change to ignore incompatible pointer types are added to the $CFLAGS environment variable in the build() function:

build() {
  cd $pkgname-$pkgver
  export CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Wno-incompatible-pointer-types"
  ./jmake.sh
}

Also,

makedpends=('pkgconf')

should be:

makedepends=('pkgconf')

And this package does not need to conflict with jove-git, is it jove-git that should conflict with and provide jove.

Finally, custom is not a valid SPDX license identifier. We could use something like:

license=('LicenseRef-JoveCustomLicense')

With these changes, and an update to the source tarball checksum, the PKGBUILD will pass namcap and the package will build.

Cheers.

V4.17.5.1-2: YASS!! 👍

V4.17.4.7-3: Well done, we're almost there.

Using jmake.sh to compile the binaries has a number of problems: it bypasses Archlinux' optimization cflags and security cflags by using a very minimal set of cflags. These cflags (well, ldflags) doesn't provide proper RELRO information (try running the final package through namcap)

I suggest skipping the jmake.sh altogether and let PKGBUILD call make directly.

This requires a prepare() method that comments out the (empty) CFLAGS and LDFLAGS from Makefile, as well as getting a few parameters using the pkgconf tool (that has to be a makedepends).

I have pasted my take at a working PKGBUILD file that lets us use ArchLinux' compiler flags, and that will produce a package that only has very few namcap issues (two empty directories + the tmp directory with the sticky bit set) here:

https://pastebin.mozilla.org/B3dU8RRj (expires in 3 weeks)

Edit: The paste above has a typo: "makedpends=('pkgconf')" — it should of course be "makedepends=('pkgconf')".

PS: Except the manuals, that are put in /usr/man/man1/ (should have been /usr/share/man/man1/).

Using this line for jmake.sh in the package() function seems to put everything in its proper place — including the /etc stuff:

./jmake.sh JOVEHOME=/usr DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install

This package still doesn't build correctly: most stuff is put in /usr/usr/local/.

Setting JOVEHOME=/ in build() and package() mostly does the trick. However, we still end up with

/usr/etc/jove/
/usr/var/lib/jove/

Perhaps they can me moved “manually” by package()?

Edit: Removed redundant word.

First off, thank you for taking over maintenance of this package!

The switch to jmake.sh is installing jove in the wrong place (on my systems):

$ pacman -Ql jove
...
jove /usr/usr/local/bin/jove
jove /usr/usr/local/bin/teachjove

(these should be /usr/bin/jove and /usr/bin/teachjove. Same is true for man pages and other files).

I've tried a few different changes to the command line in PKGBUILD but I can't get it to install to the correct location.

The github repo only provides "release candidates", no stable releases. Even 4.17.2.7 is a release candidate.