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The .desktop file breaks kbuildsycoca6:

> XDG_MENU_PREFIX=arch- kbuildsycoca6
kbuildsycoca6 running...
kf.config.core: KConfigIni: In file /usr/share/applications/activate-linux.desktop, line 5: Invalid escape sequence: «\"»
kf.config.core: KConfigIni: In file /usr/share/applications/activate-linux.desktop, line 5: Invalid escape sequence: «\"»

Can you remove the \ please?

This package fails to build, because xorg-xrandr is missing as dependency (dunno if it should be make or regular dep):

Package xrandr was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `xrandr.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'xrandr', required by 'virtual:world', not found
  CC     activate_linux.c
Package xrandr was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `xrandr.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'xrandr', required by 'virtual:world', not found
  CC     cairo_draw_text.c
In file included from src/cairo_draw_text.c:3:
src/cairo_draw_text.h:4:10: fatal error: cairo.h: No such file or directory
    4 | #include <cairo.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make: *** [Makefile:109: obj/cairo_draw_text.o] Error 1
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
==> ERROR: Build failed, check /var/lib/aurbuild/x86_64/chris/build

Also there are another few points:

• the package should include provides=(...) and conflicts=(...) statements for activate-linux as per https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/VCS_package_guidelines#Conflicts_and_dependencies
• the package has license custom but upstream specifies GPL
• You could use make install with appropriate prefixes, then the manpage would also be copied

Please add libconfig to makedepends.

The package is missing libxfixes and libxinerama as makedep or dependencies, I'm not sure. They are at least needed for successful building in a clean chroot.

Sorry for not being active for a couple a weeks, I've been busy with exams. I fixed package() and added git and pkgconf to make depends. Thank you to everyone who commented, it should build fine now.

1. remove bin/ in package()
   before: install -D bin/activate-linux "$pkgdir/usr/bin/activate-linux"
   after: install -D activate-linux "$pkgdir/usr/bin/activate-linux"
2. add git and pkgconfig in makedepends
   before: makedepends=('make' 'clang')
   after: makedepends=('make' 'clang' 'git' 'pkgconf')

remove bin/ from install to make it work with new versions

building no longer create bin folder (install: cannot stat '/bin/activate-linux': No such file or directory ). I fix it by changing the last line package() to: install -D activate-linux "$pkgdir/usr/bin/activate-linux"

just activate-linux instead of bin/activate-linux

and additional error : one line before last: the -Dm644 missing white-space: it need to be -Dm 644.

It seems like at the moment, the following patches are required:

diff --git a/.SRCINFO b/.SRCINFO
index 6acbe95..d9754ae 100644
--- a/.SRCINFO
+++ b/.SRCINFO
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 pkgbase = activate-linux-git
        pkgdesc = The "Activate Windows" watermark ported to Linux with Xlib and cairo in C
-       pkgver = r70.d0d7e2c
+       pkgver = r90.7132160
        pkgrel = 1
        url = https://github.com/MrGlockenspiel/activate-linux
        arch = x86_64
diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 847de55..67ed5a0 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Maintainer: Polis Minus <polisminus2247@tuta.io>
 pkgname=activate-linux-git
 _pkgname=activate-linux
-pkgver=r70.d0d7e2c
+pkgver=r90.7132160
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="The \"Activate Windows\" watermark ported to Linux with Xlib and cairo in C"
 arch=("x86_64")
@@ -28,5 +28,5 @@ package() {
   install -D activate-linux.desktop "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/activate-linux.desktop"
   cd "$srcdir/$_pkgname"
   install -Dm644 LICENSE.md "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
-  install -D bin/activate-linux "$pkgdir/usr/bin/activate-linux"
+  install -D activate-linux "$pkgdir/usr/bin/activate-linux"
 }