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Upstream recently dropped Scons support and switched to CMake. I was able to tweak the PKGBUILD to make it work with the following diff:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 1851303..7a1f0ee 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -4,13 +4,13 @@

 pkgname='endless-sky-git'
 _gitname='endless-sky'
-pkgver=0.10.7.alpha.a5d616acc0
+pkgver=0.10.13.alpha.b4da7ac263
 pkgrel=1
 arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
 url="https://endless-sky.github.io/"
 provides=('endless-sky')
 depends=('openal' 'hicolor-icon-theme' 'libjpeg-turbo' 'libmad' 'glew' 'libpng' 'sdl2')
-makedepends=('git' 'scons')
+makedepends=('git' 'cmake')
 optdepends=(
   'endless-sky-high-dpi: high resolution graphics assets'
   'endless-sky-editor: map editor'
@@ -35,33 +35,28 @@ pkgver() {
 }

 build() {
+  # Adapted from https://github.com/endless-sky/endless-sky/blob/master/docs/readme-developer.md#building-the-game
   cd "$_gitname"
-  scons -j "$(nproc)"
+  local cmake_config_options=(
+    --preset linux
+    -D __linux__=1
+    -D BUILD_TESTING=OFF # Disabled building of tests and reduces dependencies
+    -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=None # per Arch recommendations, to use makepkg optimization settings
+    -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="/usr" # Ensure install paths don't have any prefix
+  )
+  local cmake_build_options=(
+    --preset linux-release
+    --target EndlessSky # Limit build to just binary
+  )
+  cmake "${cmake_config_options[@]}"
+  cmake --build "${cmake_build_options[@]}"
 }

 package() {
   cd "$_gitname"

-  # binary
-  install -Dm755 -t "${pkgdir}/usr/bin" endless-sky
+  DESTDIR="$pkgdir" cmake --install build/linux

-  # resources
-  install -Dm644 -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/games/${_gitname}" credits.txt keys.txt
-  cp -rf data images sounds "${pkgdir}/usr/share/games/${_gitname}/"
-
-  # .desktop
-  install -Dm644 -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications" io.github.endless_sky.endless_sky.desktop
-
-  # icons
-  for res in 16 22 24 32 48 128 256 512; do
-    install -Dm644 \
-      "icons/icon_${res}x${res}.png" \
-      "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${res}x${res}/apps/${_gitname}.png"
-  done
-
-  # manpage
-  install -Dm644 -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/man/man6" endless-sky.6
-
-  # copyright
-  install -Dm644 -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}" copyright
+  # Upstream puts binary in /usr/games. Move it to expected location
+  mv "${pkgdir}/usr/games" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
 }

Additionally, there seems to be a resource path search issue upstream (affects the non-git package on my system too). Fixed in upstream

It doesn't compile for me, I have got the following errors :

==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting package()...
install: cannot stat 'endless-sky.desktop': No such file or directory
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
    Aborting...

At the moment the game doesn't compile.

source/PlayerInfoPanel.cpp: In member function ‘void PlayerInfoPanel::DrawPlayer(const Rectangle&)’: source/PlayerInfoPanel.cpp:611:23: error: possibly dangling reference to a temporary [...] cc1plus: all warnings being treated as errors scons: *** [build/release/PlayerInfoPanel.o] Error 1 scons: building terminated because of errors. ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting... -> error making: endless-sky-git-exit status 4 -> Failed to install the following packages. Manual intervention is required: endless-sky-git - exit status 4

I think this is related to this bug report from a couple of days ago:

https://github.com/endless-sky/endless-sky/issues/8746 Downgrading gcc and gcc-libs to 12.2.1-2 fixes the problem.

UPDATE: This error has been fixed upstream. Compiles fine now.

Hello, could you update homepage to https?

Just picked up this package. I'll update the PKGBUILD when I get home from work today.

Tip to compile endless-sky-git-0.9.8.r431.ga2d79c45-1 successfully: Edit the PKGBUILD as follow:

--- _idir=endless-sky.iconset +++ _idir=icons

And that's it. It's a great game <3 Thank you LeonardK!

Thanks JohnnyBGods. To reflect release 0.9.8 I just had to change

(--) pkgver=0.9.5.r31.g07836c69 (++) pkgver=0.9.8.r26.g97c1fae

and here launch another open source game :)

Since I couldn't install at this date because of changes in new version, I'm sharing the following changes that worked for me: PKGBUILD: line4 pkgver=0.9.5.r31.g07836c69 line19 'SKIP') lines52,60 install -D --mode=644 icons/icon_16x16.png ${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/${_gitname}.png install -D --mode=644 icons/icon_22x22.png ${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/${_gitname}.png install -D --mode=644 icons/icon_24x24.png ${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/${_gitname}.png install -D --mode=644 icons/icon_32x32.png ${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/${_gitname}.png install -D --mode=644 icons/icon_48x48.png ${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/${_gitname}.png install -D --mode=644 icons/icon_256x256.png ${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/${_gitname}.png endless-sky.install: lines2,9 xdg-icon-resource install --novendor --size 16 /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/endless-sky.png xdg-icon-resource install --novendor --size 22 /usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/endless-sky.png xdg-icon-resource install --novendor --size 24 /usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/endless-sky.png xdg-icon-resource install --novendor --size 32 /usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/endless-sky.png xdg-icon-resource install --novendor --size 48 /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/endless-sky.png xdg-icon-resource install --novendor --size 256 /usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/endless-sky.png update-desktop-database -q lines13,19 xdg-icon-resource uninstall --novendor --size 16 /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/endless-sky.png xdg-icon-resource uninstall --novendor --size 22 /usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/endless-sky.png xdg-icon-resource uninstall --novendor --size 24 /usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/endless-sky.png xdg-icon-resource uninstall --novendor --size 32 /usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/endless-sky.png xdg-icon-resource uninstall --novendor --size 48 /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/endless-sky.png xdg-icon-resource uninstall --novendor --size 256 /usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/endless-sky.png update-desktop-database -q Cheers!

Yes indeed, it got deleted at cc56a1d1f32d4c8aca1c66ec8059e8778a6b841b Updated the PKGBUILD, thanks for the hint.

extra doesn't seem to exist in git any longer, it needs to be removed from the PKGBUILD