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Important note: Is recommended to receive the following key before to install:

$ gpg --recv-keys B94556F81C85D0D5

Also is possible skip the verification, adding the flag for (e.g makepkg, yay) --skippgpcheck, --nopgpfetch, respectively.

My actual patched PKGBUILD:

# Maintainer: Carlos Aznarán <caznaranl@uni.pe>
# Contributor: Antonio Rojas <arojas@archlinux.org>
# Contributor: Thomas Baechler <thomas@archlinux.org>

pkgname=davfs2
pkgver=1.7.1
pkgrel=0
pkgdesc="File system driver that allows you to mount a WebDAV folder"
arch=('armv7h' 'aarch64' 'x86_64')
url="https://github.com/alisarctl/${pkgname}"
license=('GPL')
depends=('neon' 'po4a')
backup=(etc/${pkgname}/${pkgname}.conf etc/${pkgname}/secrets)
validpgpkeys=('51A0F4A0C8CFC98F842EA9A8B94556F81C85D0D5') # Ali Abdallah <aabdallah@suse.com>
source=(https://github.com/alisarctl/${pkgname}/releases/download/rel-${pkgver//./-}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz{,.sig})
sha512sums=('187a2ccd8946fbd659cbb96165fe5523c9c4f2ba855087bc0493ebce198a5ec581543576f0dd2a8e5da96c4abcc10bb83fcb3d5b573aa72bd1871a9f3914c364'
            'SKIP')

prepare() {
  cd ${pkgname}-${pkgver}
  sed -i 's/31 32 33/31 32 33 34/g' configure
}

build() {
  cd ${pkgname}-${pkgver}
  dav_user=nobody dav_group=network ./configure --prefix=/usr --sbindir=/usr/bin --sysconfdir=/etc --disable-debug
  make
}

package() {
  cd ${pkgname}-${pkgver}
  make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install
}

This is my PKGBUILD based on @connaisseur

# Contributor: Thomas Baechler <thomas@archlinux.org>

pkgname=davfs2
pkgver=1.7.1
pkgrel=0
pkgdesc="File system driver that allows you to mount a WebDAV folder"
arch=('armv7h' 'aarch64' 'x86_64')
url="https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/${pkgname}"
license=('GPL')
depends=('neon' 'po4a')
makedepend=('base-devel')
backup=(etc/${pkgname}/${pkgname}.conf etc/${pkgname}/secrets)
source=(https://download-mirror.savannah.gnu.org/releases/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz{,.sig})
validpgpkeys=('51A0F4A0C8CFC98F842EA9A8B94556F81C85D0D5') # Ali Abdallah <aabdallah@suse.com>
sha512sums=('187a2ccd8946fbd659cbb96165fe5523c9c4f2ba855087bc0493ebce198a5ec581543576f0dd2a8e5da96c4abcc10bb83fcb3d5b573aa72bd1871a9f3914c364'
             'SKIP')

prepare() { 
  cd ${pkgname}-${pkgver}
  sed -i 's/NE_REQUIRE_VERSIONS(\[0\], \[27 28 29 30 31 32 33\])/NE_REQUIRE_VERSIONS(\[0\], \[27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34\])/g' configure.ac
  ./bootstrap
}

build() {
  cd ${pkgname}-${pkgver}
  dav_user=nobody dav_group=network ./configure --prefix=/usr --sbindir=/usr/bin --sysconfdir=/etc --disable-debug
  make
}

package() {
  cd ${pkgname}-${pkgver}
  make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install
}

For the impatient under us, I have created a PKGBUILD diff for current 1.7.1 release at pastebin:

https://pastebin.com/A3gt28M1

.. just hackish.

I've got the following error during installation:

checking for neon-config... /usr/bin/neon-config
checking linking against neon... yes
configure: incompatible neon library version 0.34.0: wanted 0.27 28 29 30 31 32 33
configure: error: could not find neon
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

Which entirely makes sense since my Arch in on neon 0.34.0 and PKGBUILD requires versions up to 33. Just adding "34" to the sed command makes makepkg to compile davfs2 without error messages.

I could successfully mount my nextcloud folder but it reacts incredibly slow. The mount command (mount -t davfs https://cloud.example.com /mnt/) itself took approx. 3 minutes. A simple directory listing ll /mnt took another 5 minutes. I've got no idea, if I'm getting anything else wrong or that could be related to my too blunt PKGBUILD hack...

It is normally expected that 'base-devel' package is installed when using makepkg. This also includes 'autoconf' and 'automake'

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Makepkg#Usage

Oh thanks, it's working !

Problem: "error during the build : davfs2-exit status 4"

Solution: You need to install "autoconf" and "automake"!

I have this error during installation :

config.status: error: in '/home/me/.cache/yay/davfs2/src/davfs2-1.7.0':
config.status: error: Something went wrong bootstrapping makefile fragments
    for automatic dependency tracking.  If GNU make was not used, consider
    re-running the configure script with MAKE="gmake" (or whatever is
    necessary).  You can also try re-running configure with the
    '--disable-dependency-tracking' option to at least be able to build
    the package (albeit without support for automatic dependency tracking).
See 'config.log' for more details
==> ERREUR : There is an error inside the build().
    Abandon…
 -> error during the build : davfs2-exit status 4
 -> Impossible to install the following packages. A manual intervention is need :
davfs2 - exit status 4

What's wrong ?

Stopped by to say that receiving the key from gpg runs into:

$ gpg --recv-keys B94556F81C85D0D5
gpg: key 0xB94556F81C85D0D5: no user ID
gpg: Total number processed: 1

Fortunately, the Savannah davfs2 page allows to download their Group release GPG keyring that works like a charm.

Add makedepends=('autoconf' 'automake') plz, or the package won't be built