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Update: overhauled PKGBUILD, added removed conf from upstream to speed up first installs. added missing configs, from config directory.

Fixed: Fixed versioning to be more sensible.

if i have missed something or you have some suggestions, please leave a comment and i will review it when i have time.

It failed with the following error:

CMake Error at src/cmake_install.cmake:52 (file):
  file INSTALL cannot copy file
  "/home/pinky/work/arch/rtlsdr-airband-git/src/rtlsdr-airband/BUILD/src/rtl_airband"
  to "/usr/bin/rtl_airband": Permission denied.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  cmake_install.cmake:47 (include)

unless you need mirisdr it's optional. in the PKGBUILD i removed 'libmirisdr' from depends & makedepends. to the build() section, added -DMIRISDR=OFF \

after it didn't work, changed the package() section as well

rtl_airband looks for default config in /usr/local/etc/rtl_airband.conf but '-c' allows for alternatives: $ rtl_airband -c /etc/rtl_airband/basic_scanning.conf

Fails to build for me with ‘mirisdr_set_transfer’ was not declared in this scope:

==> Starting build()...
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 11.1.0
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ - skipped
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Build type not specified: defaulting to Release
-- Performing Test CXX_HAS_PTHREAD
-- Performing Test CXX_HAS_PTHREAD - Success
-- Performing Test CXX_HAS_FFAST_MATH
-- Performing Test CXX_HAS_FFAST_MATH - Success
-- Found PkgConfig: /usr/bin/pkg-config (found version "1.8.0") 
-- Checking for module 'libconfig++'
--   Found libconfig++, version 1.7.3
-- Found lame includes: /usr/include/lame/lame.h
-- Found lame library: /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so
-- Checking for module 'shout'
--   Found shout, version 2.4.5
-- Checking for module 'librtlsdr'
--   Found librtlsdr, version v0.8.x-xxx-xunknown
-- Found RTLSDR: /usr/lib/librtlsdr.so  
-- Checking for module 'libmirisdr'
--   Found libmirisdr, version 59ba
-- Found MiriSDR: /usr/lib/libmirisdr.so  
-- Checking for SoapySDR
--   SoapySDR found, /usr/include, SoapySDR
-- Checking for module 'libpulse'
--   Found libpulse, version 15.0
-- Checking for module 'fftw3f'
--   Found fftw3f, version 3.3.10
-- RTLSDR-Airband configuration summary:

-- - Build type:        Release
-- - Operating system:      Linux
-- - SDR drivers:
--   - librtlsdr:       requested: ON, enabled: TRUE
--   - mirisdr:         requested: ON, enabled: TRUE
--   - soapysdr:        requested: ON, enabled: TRUE
-- - Other options:
--   - Platform:        native
--   - Broadcom VideoCore GPU:  FALSE
--   - NFM support:     ON
--   - PulseAudio:      requested: ON, enabled: TRUE
--   - Profiling:       requested: OFF, enabled: FALSE
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /[...]/rtlsdr-airband-git/src/rtlsdr-airband/BUILD
[  6%] Generating version.cpp, _version.cpp
[ 25%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/rtl_airband_base.dir/config.cpp.o
[ 25%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/rtl_airband_base.dir/input-file.cpp.o
[ 25%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/rtl_airband_base.dir/input-common.cpp.o
[ 31%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/rtl_airband_base.dir/input-helpers.cpp.o
[ 37%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/rtl_airband_base.dir/mixer.cpp.o
[ 43%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/rtl_airband_base.dir/output.cpp.o
[ 50%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/rtl_airband_base.dir/rtl_airband.cpp.o
[ 56%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/rtl_airband_base.dir/squelch.cpp.o
[ 62%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/rtl_airband_base.dir/util.cpp.o
[ 62%] Generating version.cpp, _version.cpp
[ 68%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/rtl_airband_base.dir/input-rtlsdr.cpp.o
[ 75%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/rtl_airband_base.dir/input-mirisdr.cpp.o
[ 81%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/rtl_airband_base.dir/input-soapysdr.cpp.o
[ 87%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/rtl_airband_base.dir/pulse.cpp.o
/[...]/rtlsdr-airband-git/src/rtlsdr-airband/src/input-mirisdr.cpp: In function ‘int mirisdr_init(input_t*)’:
/[...]/rtlsdr-airband-git/src/rtlsdr-airband/src/input-mirisdr.cpp:99:38: error: ‘MIRISDR_HW_DEFAULT’ was not declared in this scope
   99 |         mirisdr_open(&dev_data->dev, MIRISDR_HW_DEFAULT, dev_data->index);
      |                                      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/[...]/rtlsdr-airband-git/src/rtlsdr-airband/src/input-mirisdr.cpp:106:17: error: ‘mirisdr_set_transfer’ was not declared in this scope
  106 |         int r = mirisdr_set_transfer(miri, (char *)"BULK");
      |                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/[...]/rtlsdr-airband-git/src/rtlsdr-airband/src/input-mirisdr.cpp:135:13: error: ‘mirisdr_set_sample_format’ was not declared in this scope; did you mean ‘mirisdr_set_sample_rate’?
  135 |         r = mirisdr_set_sample_format(miri, (char *)"504_S8");
      |             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      |             mirisdr_set_sample_rate
make[2]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/rtl_airband_base.dir/build.make:237: src/CMakeFiles/rtl_airband_base.dir/input-mirisdr.cpp.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:126: src/CMakeFiles/rtl_airband_base.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:136: all] Error 2
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

I have installed libmirisdr-git, version 59ba372-1.

Can you add =${pkgver} to the provides-entry?

Thanks for maintaining!

Update: overhauled PKGBUILD, added removed conf from upstream to speed up first installs. added missing configs, from config directory.

Fixed: Fixed versioning to be more sensible.

if i have missed something or you have some suggestions, please leave a comment and i will review it when i have time.

Somewhat broken:

==> Starting package()... install: cannot stat 'rtl_airband.conf.example': No such file or directory ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package(). Aborting... Error making: rtlsdr-airband-git

airband now supports soapysdr in the unstable branch so you can use other SDRs supported by soapysdr. need to add WITH_SOAPYSDR=1 after PLATFORM=x86 make part to enable it.