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thanks @dbb and @mutewave again

added texlive meta - @mutewave it's likely well utilised in the 'make doc' section which I think I added shortly after adopting

@dbb that was what I did when I was trying to resolve the build failures post-patch. I'm actually curious why tex is a sticking point with this.

Fails to build in a clean chroot with:

You don't have a working TeX binary (tex) installed anywhere in
your PATH, and texi2dvi cannot proceed without one.  If you want to use
this script, you'll need to install TeX (if you don't have it) or change
your PATH or TEX environment variable (if you do).  See the --help
output for more details.

For information about obtaining TeX, please see http://tug.org/texlive,
or do a web search for TeX and your operating system or distro.
make: *** [Makefile:941: doc/gforth.dvi] Error 1

Needed to add texlive-meta to makedepends to get it to build.

No problem, thanks for your timely assistance. Happy holidays!

@mutewave I should have said

makepkg -Csi

though i generally do it manually by

rm -f *zst && rm -rf ./src && makepkg -si

Thanks for the report and detail you provided. It seems as though options=(!lto) is unfortunately needed for this package in certain circumstances. I'll update the package a little later today

I took out the -j1, hence

build() {
  cd "$pkgname-$pkgver"
  make
  make doc
  make more
}

As instructed, !lto was retained:

pkgname=gforth
pkgver=0.7.3
pkgrel=3
url="http://www.gnu.org/software/gforth/"
pkgdesc="Fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth language"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64' 'armv6h')
license=('GPL-3.0-or-later')
depends=('libtool' 'texinfo')
options=(!lto)

do you mean makepkg -si or makepkg -sif to overwrite the existing build? makepkg -si just installs the existing package. however makepkg -sif yields a build failure. Here are three pastebins:

makelog.txt.2 = https://pastebin.com/umNLu9Zv

vmgen.log = https://pastebin.com/NYxmxDs0

the actual part I saw where build craps out = https://pastebin.com/fU1zWuPB

Yes please, I'm curious whether the addition of options=(!lto) or the change to make -j1 fixed the build for you. texinfo sounds like a makedepend i missed but not related to your original error.

If you don't mind, try run makepkg -si without the -j1 and with !lto and let me know if it failed/succeeded - I will know what to change based on your response

Thanks for following up mate

Applied the patch and then entered makepkg -siL. At first there was an error complaining about being unable to find texinfo. So I reinstalled the texinfo package and also installed the texlive-meta (something I've been meaning to do for a bit). After that, it was built and installed.

I can run gforth and get to the text interpreter just fine. Happy to provide any other info if helpful.

Yup. Running x86_64, with kernel 6.12.6-arch1-1. I'll give that a shot.

@mutewave Just to confirm you're on x86_64 right? Can you please try patch the PKGBUILD and try makepkg -siL again?

--- PKGBUILD.orig   2024-12-28 17:13:30.863433726 -0500
+++ PKGBUILD    2024-12-28 17:14:01.336261750 -0500
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 arch=('i686' 'x86_64' 'armv6h')
 license=('GPL-3.0-or-later')
 depends=('libtool' 'texinfo')
+options=(!lto)
 #source=("https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gforth.git/snapshot/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz" #official source
 source=("https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gforth/gforth-${pkgver}.tar.gz"
   #source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/forthy42/gforth/archive/refs/tags/${pkgver}.tar.gz" #this is just faster
@@ -73,7 +74,7 @@

 build() {
   cd "$pkgname-$pkgver"
-  make
+  make -j1
   make doc
   make more
 }