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@jeyes https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_clean_chroot

If people are having issues, try building with extra-x86_64-build in a clean chroot.

This is displayed to me as zotero-latest-commit and will update every time I scan the AUR for changes.

@peder2tm I had the same error before. Simply delete the cached source files in your build, or use extra-x86_64-build to get a clean build environment and it should work.

This package does not build for me

...
==> Extracting sources...
  -> Creating working copy of zotero-client git repo...
Cloning into 'zotero-client'...
done.
Downloading app/linux/updater.tar.xz (74 KB)
Error downloading object: app/linux/updater.tar.xz (d7e9c81): Smudge error: Error downloading app/linux/updater.tar.xz (d7e9c81d2f86ec0f70d75107a022649292889807bc8b0b7eaf1bdfd5c1030bf1): error transferring "d7e9c81d2f86ec0f70d75107a022649292889807bc8b0b7eaf1bdfd5c1030bf1": [0] remote missing object d7e9c81d2f86ec0f70d75107a022649292889807bc8b0b7eaf1bdfd5c1030bf1

Errors logged to '/home/peter/kode/zotero/src/zotero-client/.git/lfs/logs/20231108T140216.702733511.log'.
Use `git lfs logs last` to view the log.
error: external filter 'git-lfs filter-process' failed
fatal: app/linux/updater.tar.xz: smudge filter lfs failed
warning: Clone succeeded, but checkout failed.
You can inspect what was checked out with 'git status'
and retry with 'git restore --source=HEAD :/'

==> ERROR: Failure while creating working copy of zotero-client git repo
    Aborting...

Ah, I think I figured out my issues. I must have had an older version of the PKGBUILD in my build directory. That would explain the missing object in git-lfs, and the problems with the build. The latest PKGBUILD builds fine, thanks!

@valandil Does the package build with just the plain nodejs from the Arch repository, which is currently version 20.6.1? That is what is specified in the PKGBUILD.

Hi! I'm having a little trouble building the latest version, even in a clean chroot. Building with nodejs-lts-gallium yields the following;

    '[21:53:02] Error: error:0308010C:digital envelope routines::unsupported\n' +
    '    at new Hash (node:internal/crypto/hash:71:19)\n' +
    '    at Object.createHash (node:crypto:130:10)\n' +
    '    at BulkUpdateDecorator.hashFactory (/build/zotero/src/zotero-client/pdf-worker/pdf.js/node_modules/webpack/lib/util/createHash.js:144:18)\n' +
    '    at BulkUpdateDecorator.update (/build/zotero/src/zotero-client/pdf-worker/pdf.js/node_modules/webpack/lib/util/createHash.js:46:50)\n' +
    '    at RawSource.updateHash (/build/zotero/src/zotero-client/pdf-worker/pdf.js/node_modules/webpack-sources/lib/RawSource.js:64:8)\n' +
    '    at NormalModule._initBuildHash (/build/zotero/src/zotero-client/pdf-worker/pdf.js/node_modules/webpack/lib/NormalModule.js:753:17)\n' +
    '    at handleParseResult (/build/zotero/src/zotero-client/pdf-worker/pdf.js/node_modules/webpack/lib/NormalModule.js:817:10)\n' +
    '    at /build/zotero/src/zotero-client/pdf-worker/pdf.js/node_modules/webpack/lib/NormalModule.js:908:4\n' +
    '    at processResult (/build/zotero/src/zotero-client/pdf-worker/pdf.js/node_modules/webpack/lib/NormalModule.js:640:11)\n' +
    '    at /build/zotero/src/zotero-client/pdf-worker/pdf.js/node_modules/webpack/lib/NormalModule.js:692:5\n' +
    "[21:53:02] 'lib' errored after 2.38 s\n" +

The official Zotero website seems to recommend node-18. Updating to nodejs-lts-hydrogen in the makedepends yields:

8181 error ../../nan/nan_typedarray_contents.h: In constructor ‘Nan::TypedArrayContents<T>::TypedArrayContents(v8::Local<v8::Value>)’:
8181 error ../../nan/nan_typedarray_contents.h:34:43: error: ‘class v8::ArrayBuffer’ has no member named ‘GetContents’
8181 error    34 |       data   = static_cast<char*>(buffer->GetContents().Data()) + byte_offset;
8181 error       |                                           ^~~~~~~~~~~
8181 error make: *** [canvas.target.mk:154: Release/obj.target/canvas/src/backend/Backend.o] Error 1

I must admit not being terribly familiar with the node building process, so I'm not too sure what's happening here. And incompatible version of node? Weird dependencies? I didn't find anything particularly useful in the .github folder of the GitHub repo either.

Side note, the error outside the chroot was weird. It was related to a missing object in git-lfs, and I have no idea why the chroot fixes it. I did try deleting the entire zotero folder hoping it was the only git-lfs cache, but to no avail ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Thanks for the work on this!

Such a usefull PKGBUILD, thanks to agkphysics and juanma(zotero-bin) for the work maintaining it.

So many votes (on "zotero-bin". And yet still no official Arch package for Zotero.

Why is it so ? Is there anything about Zotero that makes it difficult to build/maintain ? Is it lack of interest by any official Arch packager ?

For late 2023,

Zotero 7 represents a major upgrade of the underlying Mozilla Firefox architecture, accompanied by a major rewrite of its source code.

@jeyes I don't use pamac (or any AUR helper) so I'm afraid I cannot help you there.

Thanks for the quick answer, @agkphysics. I'm not advanced enough to build the package myself. I have installed it using pamac and now I would also like to be able to update it via pamac. It lets me edit the PKGBUILD file, however, is there any way to achieve the solution that way?

@jeyes https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_clean_chroot