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The latest update breaks building in minimal chroots (e.g. with aurutils), since the optdep will never be installed in the chroot. You need to add tcl/tk in makedepends still for that use case.

And the other alternative is to always build with --with-tcl --with-tk with tk/tcl being in both make and optdepends, many packages also do this approach.

It would still be 1 package. Here is what I mean, splitting like this

pkgbase=hfsutils
pkgname=('hfsutils' 'hfsutils-tcltk')

Then in build you would only have:

build() {
    cd "${pkgname}-${pkgver%_p*}"
    autoreconf -fi
    ./configure --with-tcl --with-tk
    make prefix=/usr
    make -C hfsck prefix=/usr
}

And package would be split into 2 section with:

package_hfsutils() {
}

package_hfsutils-tcltk() {
depends=('tcl' 'tk')
}

I suppose that we could split it, but then it's 2 packages to maintain. The TCL/TK interface is actually rather useful, or I wouldn't bother.

I mean to only build 1 variant, with --with. This way you need it in makedeps to build it. Alternatively a split package with programs that require tcl/tk just like debian does.

I already added them to optdepends. The problem is that the configure script isn’t smart enough to use tcl and tk without the —with logic.

I think it would be better to add tcl,tk to makedepends and optdepends instead of relying on this logic.

the patch is no longer needed, as it seems that Debian already added it. I just added some logic to the build to configure with tcl and tk if present.

@ajacocks post patch here then i can add it.

Would you like to add the ability to build the tcl/tk GUI for this package? I have a small patch to make it build with modern versions.