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Make sure you have the multilib-devel group installed before reporting issues while building the package. I will not add it as a makedepends because it is not a makedepends for lib32-ncurses5 either. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg#Build_32-bit_packages_on_a_64-bit_system

If anyone is still having trouble getting used to PGP signing, make sure to add the key mentioned in the PKGBUILD:

$ gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 19882D92DDA4C400C22C0D56CC2AF4472167BE03

@lpapp, I guess the easiest thing to do would be to adapt the PKGBUILD for ncurses5-compat-libs (https://aur4.archlinux.org/packages/ncurses5-compat-libs/) to this package. I believe it uses install.lib instead of install, I'm not sure we need to build ncursesw, and a few other things.. Check it out.

@Viper_Scull: That makes sense, yes. I think that I will need to avoid then creating these symlinks as they are probably already created by lib32-ncurses: lib32-ncurses5-compat-libs: /usr/lib32/libcurses.so exists in filesystem lib32-ncurses5-compat-libs: /usr/lib32/libcursesw.so exists in filesystem lib32-ncurses5-compat-libs: /usr/lib32/libform.so exists in filesystem lib32-ncurses5-compat-libs: /usr/lib32/libformw.so exists in filesystem lib32-ncurses5-compat-libs: /usr/lib32/libmenu.so exists in filesystem lib32-ncurses5-compat-libs: /usr/lib32/libmenuw.so exists in filesystem lib32-ncurses5-compat-libs: /usr/lib32/libncurses++.a exists in filesystem lib32-ncurses5-compat-libs: /usr/lib32/libncurses++w.a exists in filesystem lib32-ncurses5-compat-libs: /usr/lib32/libncurses.so exists in filesystem lib32-ncurses5-compat-libs: /usr/lib32/libncursesw.so exists in filesystem lib32-ncurses5-compat-libs: /usr/lib32/libpanel.so exists in filesystem lib32-ncurses5-compat-libs: /usr/lib32/libpanelw.so exists in filesystem Patches are welcome, otherwise, I will do it later. Something like this would be a good starting point, I believe: diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD index 2287f55..69a34a0 100644 --- a/PKGBUILD +++ b/PKGBUILD @@ -12,8 +12,6 @@ url="http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/" license=('MIT') depends=('lib32-glibc' ${_pkgbasename}) makedepends=("gcc-multilib") -conflicts=("lib32-ncurses") -provides=("lib32-ncurses") source=(ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/${_pkgbasename}/${_pkgbasename}-${pkgver}.tar.gz) md5sums=('ee13d052e1ead260d7c28071f46eefb1') @@ -47,23 +45,6 @@ package() { cd ${srcdir}/ncursesw-build make install - install -dm755 ${pkgdir}/usr/lib32 - - # fool packages looking to link to non-wide-character ncurses libraries - for lib in curses ncurses form panel menu; do - rm -f ${pkgdir}/usr/lib32/lib${lib}.so - echo "INPUT(-l${lib}w)" >${pkgdir}/usr/lib32/lib${lib}.so - ln -sf lib${lib}w.a ${pkgdir}/usr/lib32/lib${lib}.a - done - ln -sf libncurses++w.a ${pkgdir}/usr/lib32/libncurses++.a - - # some packages look for -lcurses during build - rm -f ${pkgdir}/usr/lib32/libcursesw.so - echo "INPUT(-lncursesw)" >${pkgdir}/usr/lib32/libcursesw.so - ln -sf libncurses.so ${pkgdir}/usr/lib32/libcurses.so - ln -sf libncursesw.a ${pkgdir}/usr/lib32/libcursesw.a - ln -sf libncurses.a ${pkgdir}/usr/lib32/libcurses.a - # non-widec compatibility libraries cd ${srcdir}/ncurses-build for lib in ncurses form panel menu; do But currently, I do not have time to finish it. After that change, there are still conflicting files, namely: lib32-ncurses5-compat-libs: /usr/lib32/libformw.so exists in filesystem lib32-ncurses5-compat-libs: /usr/lib32/libmenuw.so exists in filesystem lib32-ncurses5-compat-libs: /usr/lib32/libncurses++w.a exists in filesystem lib32-ncurses5-compat-libs: /usr/lib32/libncursesw.so exists in filesystem lib32-ncurses5-compat-libs: /usr/lib32/libpanelw.so exists in filesystem

@lpapp, yes. lib32-ncurses version 6 is the default in Arch now. AFAIK this (lib32-ncurses5-compat-libs) library is supposed to bring compatibility with packages that still require lib32-ncurses5 like wine for example. So both should coexist in the system until all packages move to ncurses6.

@Viper_Scull: you mean that I ought to remove the conflicts and provides lines from the PKGBUILD because lib32-ncurses might be required to be present along with this package? If so, that makes sense to me and I can update the package.

Package comflicts with lib-ncurses-6 when this should be installed along with it, right?