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@gamezelda and @micwoj92.

Fixed.

The package fails to build due to GCC building it in C23 mode:

pfmlib_common.c: In function ‘pfmlib_parse_event’:
pfmlib_common.c:1889:11: error: assignment discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [-Werror=discarded-qualifiers]
 1889 |         p = strpbrk(event, PFMLIB_EVENT_DELIM);
      |           ^

This can be fixed with this patch (or adding -std=gnu17 to the CFLAGS):

diff --git a/src/libpfm4/lib/pfmlib_common.c b/src/libpfm4/lib/pfmlib_common.c
index 154acd0..c1024fa 100644
--- a/src/libpfm4/lib/pfmlib_common.c
+++ b/src/libpfm4/lib/pfmlib_common.c
@@ -1886,8 +1886,7 @@ pfmlib_parse_event(const char *event, pfmlib_event_desc_t *d)
    /*
     * support only one event at a time.
     */
-   p = strpbrk(event, PFMLIB_EVENT_DELIM);
-   if (p)
+   if (strpbrk(event, PFMLIB_EVENT_DELIM))
        return PFM_ERR_INVAL;
    /*
     * create copy because string is const

Please use spdx license identifier.

Just updated to new release 7.2.0!

All changes are available @ https://github.com/icl-utk-edu/papi

Changes to the PKGBUILD: After examining the package, I was to use the Arch-Linux distributed extra/libpfm, but it won't provide the .a file necessary for static compilation (key thing in papi as one many times wants to distribute a standalone binary to maybe a cluster, etc)

What I ended up doing is just mark this package as a provider of libpfm and it is working well for me atm. The source code is exactly the same.

Other way I could try to do this is distributing a libpfm-static on a separate package, that just compiles the .a file, and update it alongside extra/libpfm4, but I feel that is a lot more inconvenient.

The last way would be to just install papi to /opt, but that is also inconvenient for some other things.

What are your opinions?

Thanks @forcegk, I can confirm that with the patch, papi builds and works on my environment.

@gamezelda should be fixed. Thank you for the patch.

Please test it in your updated environment, as I can not atm.

The package now fails to build due to GCC15 which is already in the non-testing repos.

You can fix it by applying this patch from the upstream repository: https://github.com/icl-utk-edu/papi/commit/33696dc1b8fde5a71b6dc23d80658f826beafea8.patch

Hello. In my tests (might not be yours) you can just pacman -S libpfm --overwrite \* and call it a day. I will solve this problem when either when there is a new stable release, or this one stops working, as papi will not be updated until then, so overwriting the files once should not cause any problems (test on your machine tho)

This package now has conflicting files with extra/libpfm. Any idea on how to resolve it?

Please do not update as long as current version builds/works fine.