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Adopt it yourself then.

Pls adopt this package as I dunno how to build latest Kdiff without KDE deps :)

8.1.1 gcc - all builds fine

This build dies for me on gcc 6.3.1: diff.cpp: In member function ‘void SourceData::FileData::preprocess(bool, QTextCodec*)’: diff.cpp:894:16: error: ambiguous overload for ‘operator==’ (operand types are ‘const QChar’ and ‘char’) if ( p[i]=='\0' ) The following patch worked: edit: I guess AUR formatter doesn't like patches. At any rate, changing the line in question to if ( p[i]==QChar('\0') ) works.

Thanks! That did it. I would never have thought of that. Sorry!

Maybe the optional dependencies for the xcb backend are not installed? $ pacman -Qi qt5-base | grep xcb Depends On : libjpeg-turbo xcb-util-keysyms libgl dbus fontconfig systemd xcb-util-wm libxrender libxi sqlite xcb-util-image icu qtchooser libxkbcommon-x11: xcb plugin [installed] libsm: xcb plugin [installed]

This seems to happen regardless if I have QT_PLUGIN_PATH set. [swinchen@splice ~]$ ls -l /usr/lib/qt/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 775352 May 14 02:30 /usr/lib/qt/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so [swinchen@splice ~]$ pacman -Qo /usr/lib/qt/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so /usr/lib/qt/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so is owned by qt5-base 5.4.1-8 [swinchen@splice ~]$ echo $QT_PLUGIN_PATH /usr/lib/qt/plugins [swinchen@splice ~]$ kdiff3 This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb". Available platform plugins are: eglfs, kms, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, xcb. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. Aborted (core dumped)

According to [1], it is related to the QT_PLUGIN_PATH. Does /usr/lib/qt/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so exist on your system (owned by qt5-base)? Did you set/adjust the QT_PLUGIN_PATH variable? [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28899812/going-from-qt4-to-qt5-on-linux-this-application-failed-to-start-because-it-coul

I get this when starting kdiff3. I checked and library dependencies look ok. [swinchen@splice ~]$ kdiff3 This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb". Available platform plugins are: eglfs, kms, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, xcb. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. Aborted (core dumped) [swinchen@splice ~]$ which kdiff3 /usr/bin/kdiff3 [swinchen@splice ~]$ ldd /usr/bin/kdiff3 linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffd991c8000) libQt5PrintSupport.so.5 => /usr/lib/libQt5PrintSupport.so.5 (0x00007f32a4491000) libQt5Widgets.so.5 => /usr/lib/libQt5Widgets.so.5 (0x00007f32a3c74000) libQt5Gui.so.5 => /usr/lib/libQt5Gui.so.5 (0x00007f32a372c000) libQt5Core.so.5 => /usr/lib/libQt5Core.so.5 (0x00007f32a325a000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f32a2f4b000) libm.so.6 => /usr/lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f32a2c46000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f32a2a30000) libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f32a268d000) libpthread.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f32a2470000) libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f32a221f000) libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f32a1f11000) libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00007f32a1bcf000) libpng16.so.16 => /usr/lib/libpng16.so.16 (0x00007f32a1999000) libharfbuzz.so.0 => /usr/lib/libharfbuzz.so.0 (0x00007f32a173c000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007f32a1526000) libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 (0x00007f32a11ce000) libicui18n.so.54 => /usr/lib/libicui18n.so.54 (0x00007f32a0d77000) libicuuc.so.54 => /usr/lib/libicuuc.so.54 (0x00007f32a09e7000) libpcre16.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpcre16.so.0 (0x00007f32a0782000) libdl.so.2 => /usr/lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f32a057e000) librt.so.1 => /usr/lib/librt.so.1 (0x00007f32a0376000) libsystemd.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsystemd.so.0 (0x00007f32a4462000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f32a4314000) libpcre.so.1 => /usr/lib/libpcre.so.1 (0x00007f32a0107000) libffi.so.6 => /usr/lib/libffi.so.6 (0x00007f329fefe000) libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007f329fcdc000) libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00007f329fa1f000) libgraphite2.so.3 => /usr/lib/libgraphite2.so.3 (0x00007f329f801000) libnvidia-tls.so.346.47 => /usr/lib/libnvidia-tls.so.346.47 (0x00007f329f5fe000) libnvidia-glcore.so.346.47 => /usr/lib/libnvidia-glcore.so.346.47 (0x00007f329c925000) libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x00007f329c713000) libicudata.so.54 => /usr/lib/libicudata.so.54 (0x00007f329ace9000) libcap.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcap.so.2 (0x00007f329aae5000) liblzma.so.5 => /usr/lib/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f329a8bf000) liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007f329a6b4000) libgcrypt.so.20 => /usr/lib/libgcrypt.so.20 (0x00007f329a3d3000) libgpg-error.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgpg-error.so.0 (0x00007f329a1c1000) libresolv.so.2 => /usr/lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007f3299faa000) libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x00007f3299da6000) libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x00007f3299ba0000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f3299990000) libattr.so.1 => /usr/lib/libattr.so.1 (0x00007f329978b000) [swinchen@splice ~]$