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If you have trouble with building it, please run yay -Scc or yay -Sc.

FYI. I replaced gdbuspp-git with gdbuspp in the PKGBUILD dependency, and it seems that the build fails because the locally cached PKGBUILD is not updated.

do an upgrade first

sudo pacman -Syu

Then I can build successfully

fyi, my tests failed with

Found ninja-1.12.1 at /usr/bin/ninja
Cleaning... 0 files.
[77/78] Linking target src/tests/ovpncli-netcfg
ninja: Entering directory `/home/foo/.cache/paru/clone/openvpn3/src/_builddir'
ninja: no work to do.
1/7 openvpn3-linux:standalone / logevent-selftest                      OK              0.02s
2/7 openvpn3-linux:standalone / netcfg-changeevent-selftest            OK              0.01s
3/7 openvpn3-linux:standalone / netcfg-dns-direct-file-selftest        OK              0.01s
4/7 openvpn3-linux:dbus / request-queue-test                           OK              1.81s
5/7 openvpn3-linux:dbus / platforminfo                                 FAIL            9.14s   killed by signal 6 SIGABRT
>>> MSAN_OPTIONS=halt_on_error=1:abort_on_error=1:print_summary=1:print_stacktrace=1 MESON_TEST_ITERATION=1 UBSAN_OPTIONS=halt_on_error=1:abort_on_error=1:print_summary=1:print_stacktrace=1 ASAN_OPTIONS=halt_on_error=1:abort_on_error=1:print_summary=1 MALLOC_PERTURB_=103 /home/foo/.cache/paru/clone/openvpn3/src/_builddir/src/tests/platforminfo

6/7 openvpn3-linux:unit / unit-tests                                   FAIL            9.19s   exit status 1
>>> MSAN_OPTIONS=halt_on_error=1:abort_on_error=1:print_summary=1:print_stacktrace=1 MALLOC_PERTURB_=254 MESON_TEST_ITERATION=1 ASAN_OPTIONS=halt_on_error=1:abort_on_error=1:print_summary=1 UBSAN_OPTIONS=halt_on_error=1:abort_on_error=1:print_summary=1:print_stacktrace=1 /home/foo/.cache/paru/clone/openvpn3/src/_builddir/src/tests/unit/unit-tests

7/7 openvpn3-linux:post-install / config-override-selftest             SKIP           19.21s   exit status 77

Ok:                 4
Expected Fail:      0
Fail:               2
Unexpected Pass:    0
Skipped:            1
Timeout:            0

Full log written to /home/foo/.cache/paru/clone/openvpn3/src/_builddir/meson-logs/testlog.txt
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in check().
    Aborting...
error: failed to build 'openvpn3-24-2':
error: packages failed to build: openvpn3-24-2

turns out, that my systemd-hostnamed service was masked so the dbus interface for org.freedesktop.hostname1 did not work.

I was not able to build it with yay (ran yay -Scc and yay -Sc before).

It failed with:

ninja: Entering directory `/home/user/.cache/yay/openvpn3/src/_builddir'
[149/171] Generating src/shell/bash-completion/bash-completion-openvpn2 with a custom command (wrapped by meson to capture output)
FAILED: src/shell/bash-completion/openvpn2 
/usr/bin/meson --internal exe --capture src/shell/bash-completion/openvpn2 -- /home/user/.cache/yay/openvpn3/src/openvpn3-linux-23/src/shell/bash-completion/gen-openvpn2-completion.py --python-source-dir /home/user/.cache/yay/openvpn3/src/openvpn3-linux-23/src/python/openvpn3
--- stderr ---
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user/.cache/yay/openvpn3/src/openvpn3-linux-23/src/shell/bash-completion/gen-openvpn2-completion.py", line 96, in <module>
    constants = importlib.import_module('openvpn3.constants',
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/importlib/__init__.py", line 90, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1387, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1360, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1324, in _find_and_load_unlocked
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'openvpn3.constants'

[163/171] Linking target src/ovpn3cli/openvpn3
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.

When trying to search for the problem, I first tried it without yay (checkout aur git and makepkg -si) which also failed - however, running it a second time successfully built...

yay -Sc and yay -Scc didn't work for me, still got the same error:

==> Missing dependencies:
  -> gdbuspp>=2

I had to remove openvpn3 and gdbuspp using yay -R openvpn3 gdbuspp-git and then I could install openvpn3 with yay -S openvpn3

To fix failure of the 'openvpn3-linux:post-install / config-override-selftest' test, I've done things from the pinned comments but it didn't solve the problem. I had to remove openvpn3 (including gdbuspp) and install openvpn3 to fix it.

Cannot build the most recent version of openvpn3: In file included from src/dco/dco-keyconfig.pb.cc:4: src/dco/dco-keyconfig.pb.h:12:2: error: #error This file was generated by a newer version of protoc which is 12 | #error This file was generated by a newer version of protoc which is | ^~~~~ src/dco/dco-keyconfig.pb.h:13:2: error: #error incompatible with your Protocol Buffer headers. Please update 13 | #error incompatible with your Protocol Buffer headers. Please update | ^~~~~ src/dco/dco-keyconfig.pb.h:14:2: error: #error your headers. 14 | #error your headers. | ^~~~~ src/dco/dco-keyconfig.pb.h:36:1: error: 'PROTOBUF_NAMESPACE_OPEN' does not name a type 36 | PROTOBUF_NAMESPACE_OPEN | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ src/dco/dco-keyconfig.pb.h:40:1: error: 'PROTOBUF_NAMESPACE_CLOSE' does not name a type 40 | PROTOBUF_NAMESPACE_CLOSE | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

tj_88, I had the same problem - it is solved by instruction in pinned comment.

Build is failing with v23-1

[77/78] Linking target src/tests/ovpncli-netcfg
ninja: Entering directory `/home/tina/.cache/yay/openvpn3/src/_builddir'
ninja: no work to do.
1/7 openvpn3-linux:standalone / logevent-selftest                      OK              0.01s
2/7 openvpn3-linux:standalone / netcfg-changeevent-selftest            OK              0.01s
3/7 openvpn3-linux:standalone / netcfg-dns-direct-file-selftest        OK              0.01s
4/7 openvpn3-linux:dbus / platforminfo                                 OK              0.09s
5/7 openvpn3-linux:unit / unit-tests                                   OK              0.12s
6/7 openvpn3-linux:post-install / config-override-selftest             FAIL            0.24s   killed by signal 6 SIGABRT
>>> MSAN_OPTIONS=halt_on_error=1:abort_on_error=1:print_summary=1:print_stacktrace=1 MESON_TEST_ITERATION=1 MALLOC_PERTURB_=215 ASAN_OPTIONS=halt_on_error=1:abort_on_error=1:print_summary=1 UBSAN_OPTIONS=halt_on_error=1:abort_on_error=1:print_summary=1:print_stacktrace=1 /home/tina/.cache/yay/openvpn3/src/_builddir/src/tests/config-override-selftest

7/7 openvpn3-linux:dbus / request-queue-test                           OK              1.44s

Ok:                 6   
Expected Fail:      0   
Fail:               1   
Unexpected Pass:    0   
Skipped:            0   
Timeout:            0   

autoconf-archive should probably be listed as a make dependecy.

depends on old protobuf 28.0 where the new one is 28.1