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As the maintainer of the package FOR archlinux (et al) it is important to note that while some people have issues using this PKGBUILD; most do NOT have issues with building this package. Specifically the "rm -rf ..."

To wit; I have tested this using yay to do the "makepkg" as well as manually going through the steps yay would do....no "problemos" here, either with archlinux OR Manjaro installs (including some virtual machine testing !).

As the upstream maintainer pointed out, all of the issues will probably be resolved with the upcoming release anyways, so please EITHER try the current PKGBUILD with "makepkg" OR use yay. Otherwise this will be ready to go A.S.A.P. with the new upstream release.

I'm one of the Xastir maintainers. I just stumbled upon the reports below about the doc install screwing up.

The reason is that 20 years ago Xastir installed documentation in a weird place, the makefile was hacked to install in a more standard place, and someone hacked in a kludge to Makefile.am to remove the old documentation on installation of the new. It stayed there. Thus, the rm -rf of that directory remained, even though it is very unlikely that anyone still has a 20+ year old install of xastir that needs to be cleaned up.

We also recently noticed that Xastir's Makefile.am was improperly constructed and was not honoring "--docdir" and "--mandir" if they were specified.

Both issues have been corrected this week and will not be present in Xastir 2.2.4, which is expected to be released in the first week of March. Hopefully release 2.2.4 will resolve all of these problems.

In the meantime, if you need to get 2.2.2 working properly and this issue blocks you, remove the "install-exec-hook" section of Makefile.am in a local patch. That's what we just did today.

These recent commits to the upstream Xastir repo probably impact exactly the issues reported by MrAureliusR and ra1nb0w.

https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir/commit/99acc2384c944c0008e08c6f73eed1faf9859cfb

https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir/commit/8a772a6b536c3d420933d5de1eaaf602a88c581d

https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir/commit/fbc350ac19f000d54bc11e208e1efbe5281a7e32

In the future, reports of problems like this are really, really welcome at Xastir's issue tracker on Github. If we don't know there's a problem, we can't fix it.

Having the same build error as ra1nb0w. I noticed a few lines up from the install command which fails, there is an rm -rf command removing that directory:

make[3]: Entering directory '/home/amr/.cache/paru/clone/xastir/src/Xastir-Release-2.2.2'
rm -rf /home/amr/.cache/paru/clone/xastir/pkg/xastir/usr/share/xastir/doc
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/amr/.cache/paru/clone/xastir/src/Xastir-Release-2.2.2'
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 placeholder '/home/amr/.cache/paru/clone/xastir/pkg/xastir/usr/share/xastir/Counties'
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 placeholder '/home/amr/.cache/paru/clone/xastir/pkg/xastir/usr/share/xastir/fcc'
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 National.geo Regional.geo Sub_national.geo Sub_regional.geo '/home/amr/.cache/paru/clone/xastir/pkg/xastir/usr/share/xastir/maps/Online/geogratis.gc.ca'
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 placeholder '/home/amr/.cache/paru/clone/xastir/pkg/xastir/usr/share/xastir/GNIS'
 /usr/bin/mkdir -p '/home/amr/.cache/paru/clone/xastir/pkg/xastir/usr/share/xastir/maps/GPS'
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 AUTHORS FAQ ChangeLog LICENSE README README.GIT README.CYGWIN README.MAPS README.sudo COPYING INSTALL.md UPGRADE README.OSM_maps CONTRIBUTING.md COPYING.LIB.LESSTIF '/home/amr/.cache/paru/clone/xastir/pkg/xastir/usr/share/xastir/doc'
install: target '/home/amr/.cache/paru/clone/xastir/pkg/xastir/usr/share/xastir/doc': No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [Makefile:554: install-docDATA] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

I get the following error from 2.2.2

install: target '/home/user/.cache/paru/clone/xastir/pkg/xastir/usr/share/xastir/doc': No such file or directory
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 worldhi.map CC_OpenStreetMap_logo.png CC_OpenStreetMap_txt.png '/home/user/.cache/paru/clone/xastir/pkg/xastir/usr/share/xastir/maps'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:554: install-docDATA] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

System is up-to-date and cache was removed.

Just ran a test build....went correctly...please make sure your system is up to date, then try again.

Fails to build:

==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package(). Aborting... -> error making: xastir-exit status 4 -> Failed to install the following packages. Manual intervention is required: xastir - exit status 4

Good catch....UPDATED

@minorsecond

makepkg -o, then comment out AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE in src/Xastir-Release-2.1.6/configure.ac, then makepkg -e

AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is being invoked twice in there, no idea why. this is an upstream problem. I'll file it.

EDIT: Spoke too soon. this is fixed in the 2.1.8 release. https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir/pull/181

Xastir fails to build now. It dies after this error message:

configure.ac:35: error: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE expanded multiple times

Updated !