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for some reason this appears to be missing some tools after building. I tried to run the IndividualTreeDetection tool, and it was missing. However if I get the pre-built version from https://www.whiteboxgeo.com/, it works as expected. not sure what's going on since it is building fine. I'll try building with the build.py script that is included and see if there are differences

Thanks @bcb

When trying to build this in a clean chroot, I had the following problems:

• cmake needs to be in makedepends

• The packages fontconfig, at-spi2-core and gtk3 are needed to build. They do not seem to be linked into the final binary so I think they can go into makedepends.

• The install function hard-codes the Python path. This means it does not install to the correct place for the system Python (currently 3.12, PKGBUILD is hard-coded to 3.9). As per https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Python_package_guidelines#Using_site-packages please update to get the correct path during install.

Additionally, the following changes should be made:

• For an MIT-licensed package, a specific license needs to be placed in /usr/share/licenses/whitebox-tools, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PKGBUILD#license

• Currently, the source file is downloaded as v2.3.0.tar.gz; the general recommendation is to use a more specific name like whitebox-tools-v2.3.0.tar.gz

The following diff takes care of all this and can be applied by copying it to a file and running git apply <filename>

Edit: if you have trouble applying the patch it might be due to whitespace errors when copying. I have also uploaded a copy to https://0x0.st/XHYF.diff

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 9ba3046..40dac9f 100755
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -2,14 +2,14 @@

 pkgname=whitebox-tools
 pkgver=2.3.0
-pkgrel=1
+pkgrel=2
 pkgdesc="WhiteboxTools is an advanced geospatial data analysis platform developed by Prof. John Lindsay"
 arch=(i686 x86_64)
 url="https://www.whiteboxgeo.com/"
 license=('MIT')
-makedepends=('rust')
+makedepends=('rust' 'cmake' 'fontconfig' 'at-spi2-core' 'gtk3')
 depends=('python')
-source=("https://github.com/jblindsay/whitebox-tools/archive/v${pkgver}.tar.gz")
+source=("whitebox-tools-v${pkgver}.tar.gz::https://github.com/jblindsay/whitebox-tools/archive/v${pkgver}.tar.gz")
    sha256sums=('295698debe203b6b61092d267e8e57021bb61941422a5432cd830b3ba2cd5ee8')

 build() {
@@ -22,8 +22,10 @@ build() {
 package() {
     cd "${pkgname}-${pkgver}"

-    mkdir -p "${pkgdir}"/{usr/bin,usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages}
     install -D -m755 "target/release/whitebox_tools" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/whitebox_tools"
-    install -D -m755 "whitebox_tools.py" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/whitebox_tools.py"
-    install -D -m755 "wb_runner.py" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/wb_runner.py"
+    install -D -m644 "LICENSE.txt" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE.txt"
+
+    local site_packages=$(python -c "import site; print(site.getsitepackages()[0])")
+    install -D -m755 "whitebox_tools.py" "${pkgdir}/${site_packages}/whitebox_tools.py"
+    install -D -m755 "wb_runner.py" "${pkgdir}/${site_packages}/wb_runner.py"
 }

Got error when building:

==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    v2.3.0.tar.gz ... Passed
==> Removing existing $srcdir/ directory...
==> Extracting sources...
  -> Extracting v2.3.0.tar.gz with bsdtar
==> Starting build()...
error: rustup could not choose a version of cargo to run, because one wasn't specified explicitly, and no default is configured.
help: run 'rustup default stable' to download the latest stable release of Rust and set it as your default toolchain.
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

Compiling error:

Compiling statrs v0.9.0 error[E0502]: cannot borrow *curr as immutable because curr.right is also borrowed as mutable --> /home/qiusheng/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/kdtree-0.6.0/src/kdtree.rs:457:20 | 457 | while !curr.is_leaf() { | ^^^^ immutable borrow occurs here ... 460 | candidate = curr.right.as_mut().unwrap(); | ---------- mutable borrow occurs here ... 483 | } | - mutable borrow ends here

...

error: aborting due to 8 previous errors

Some errors occurred: E0499, E0502, E0506. For more information about an error, try rustc --explain E0499. error: Could not compile kdtree. warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish... error: failed to compile whitebox_tools v1.1.0 (/var/tmp/pamac-build-qiusheng/whitebox-tools/src/whitebox-tools-1.1.0), intermediate artifacts can be found at /var/tmp/pamac-build-qiusheng/whitebox-tools/src/whitebox-tools-1.1.0/target