Joking apart. Building "some" sourceforge related package provided by ABS works without issues [1]. Regards, Ralf [1] [rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ cp -a /var/abs/community/qtractor/ . [rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ cd qtractor/ [rocketmouse@archlinux qtractor]$ grep sourceforge PKGBUILD url="http://qtractor.sourceforge.net/"; source=("https://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/files/qtractor/$pkgver/qtractor-$pkgver.tar.gz";) [rocketmouse@archlinux qtractor]$ makepkg -s ==> Making package: qtractor 0.7.9-1 (Thu Nov 24 01:13:42 CET 2016) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Checking buildtime dependencies... ==> Retrieving sources... -> Downloading qtractor-0.7.9.tar.gz... % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 369 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 0 15416 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 0 0 357 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 0 100 1673k 100 1673k 0 0 386k 0 0:00:04 0:00:04 --:--:-- 713k ==> Validating source files with md5sums... qtractor-0.7.9.tar.gz ... Passed ==> Extracting sources... -> Extracting qtractor-0.7.9.tar.gz with bsdtar ==> Starting prepare()... ==> Starting build()... checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking how to run the C preprocessor... ^C
