On 5 February 2011 08:34, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > (1) use vbox? > > or > > (2) use a chroot? (2) pacman -S devtools extra-i686-build (in PKGBUILD dir) That makes use of mkarchroot and makechrootpkg [1], which makes use of chroot. They are right, some KDE3 applications where no amount of configuration helps only build properly in a clean chroot, without the KDE4 stuff around. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_Clean_Chroot