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Apart from PIE/RELRO this should be fixed now.

Regarding the out of date notification, I'm not exactly sure how I should handle this.

I opened an issue on their github, but currently I can't have a stable link for the latest version, so if I add checksum verification it will break with a new version. I'd prefer for this to not be a real git package though, not sure how to do that unless they also date-tag their latest release. Unless I always use the previous release (which is date-tagged)... How would you recommend dealing with this?

Not sure if missing PIE and RELRO is a problem, there's not much I can do without completely building the package myself. Is that causing issues?

I'll fix the permissions in the next update.

Ah yes, because I thought that was missing. May bad. Anyways, If I clone the git repo as well, I could use the tag for proper git versioning. Not sure if that is best practice though.

I considered this too, I believe cloning the git repo and then not building is unconventional at least.

I also considered building openwatcom locally (making it a real -git package) but that really seems like quite a pain! The compilation is single threaded and takes quite a long time.

I don't really have a good solution to this.

Ah yes, because I thought that was missing. May bad. Anyways, If I clone the git repo as well, I could use the tag for proper git versioning. Not sure if that is best practice though.

Thanks, fixed it. Not sure about the git package though. AFAIK aur helpers don't detect it when the name is the same.

This is true, though aurutils ships with an example (/usr/share/doc/aurutils/examples/vercmp-devel) script that will list any -git/svn/etc packages that are out of date.

I noticed you changed from Current-Build to Last-CI-build. I don't know what the difference are between those. Though Last-CI-build seems a few hours newer. I think "Current-Build" was probably more correct, in the README it is labelled as "Current Release Build" which sounds more stable at least.

Thanks, fixed it. Not sure about the git package though. AFAIK aur helpers don't detect it when the name is the same.

The package is also broken:

==> ERROR: Failure while downloading https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2/releases/download/Current-build/ow-snapshot.tar.gz
    Aborting...

They have changed format to .tar.xz since this PKGBUILD was last updated.

Hi. I believe this would be better as a -git package that downloaded the tag Current-Build rather than the tar.gz. That way aur helpers (such as aurutils) can help detect when this needs to be updated and rebuilt.

hey, apologies beforehand if this is a noob question:

I installed openwatcom-v2 on endeavour OS but it did not copy the owsetenv.sh to /etc/profile.d

is there something going wrong or did i miss something?

See topic here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=272857

I noticed the PKGBUILD does

cp "${srcdir}/owsetenv.sh" ${pkgdir}/opt/watcom/

is that intentional? why not /etc/profile.d?

@AndrevS Fixed the script. Not sure how that ever worked though, I didn't change it before.