makepkg -si doesn't work. I get an "Error: A failure occurred in build (). Aborting..."

[jaggiskaggi]

makepkg -si doesn't work. I get an "Error: A failure occurred in build (). Aborting..."

[olodar]

Same here. Package is not buildable on fresh arch.

[jaggiskaggi]

Do you think downgrading to older versions of arch will work or doesn't matter?

[olodar]

Do you think downgrading to older versions of arch will work or doesn't matter?

It should work, but it is not solution. Need to dug up why telegram won't compile, and start trying to build from "clean" sources without any patches.

[Layerex]

why telegram won't compile

It's, unlike dependencies, outdated. Will update patches & PKGBUILD sometime

[Layerex]

By the way, if you want to update the patches yourself, first obtain the up-to-date PKGBUILD from the URL at the top of the current one.

[olodar]

I have updated PKGBUILD, works well on current arch (1/24/24)

# https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/telegram-desktop/-/blob/main/PKGBUILD
pkgname=telegram-desktop-patched
pkgver=4.14.9
pkgrel=3
pkgdesc='Telegram Desktop client with some anti-features (sponsored messages, saving restrictions and other) disabled.'
arch=('x86_64')
url="https://github.com/Layerex/telegram-desktop-patches"
license=('GPL3')
depends=('hunspell' 'ffmpeg' 'hicolor-icon-theme' 'lz4' 'minizip' 'openal' 'ttf-opensans'
         'qt6-imageformats' 'qt6-svg' 'qt6-wayland' 'xxhash'
         'rnnoise' 'pipewire' 'libxtst' 'libxrandr' 'libxcomposite' 'abseil-cpp' 'libdispatch'
         'openssl' 'protobuf' 'glib2' 'libsigc++-3.0' 'glibmm-2.68')
makedepends=('cmake' 'git' 'ninja' 'python' 'range-v3' 'tl-expected' 'microsoft-gsl' 'meson'
             'extra-cmake-modules' 'wayland-protocols' 'plasma-wayland-protocols' 'libtg_owt'
             'gobject-introspection' 'boost' 'fmt' 'mm-common' 'perl-xml-parser')
optdepends=('webkit2gtk: embedded browser features'
            'xdg-desktop-portal: desktop integration')
conflicts=("telegram-desktop")
source=("https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/releases/download/v${pkgver}/tdesktop-${pkgver}-full.tar.gz"
        "0001-Disable-sponsored-messages.patch"
        "0002-Disable-saving-restrictions.patch"
        "0003-Disable-invite-peeking-restrictions.patch"
        "0004-Disable-accounts-limit.patch")
sha512sums=('802ec7eeef75ac97934cb0437c24dab62670f7029a1a5e44866cd77d39d7b572b79106c0b73bd742786548db938c49ba2e559123963ef0201adaa279b4cf9fa4'
    "d5898c0f12a90c39f277b874d9650b7e9ebea224f49e635c0c4275801d228a435b6b1ba0614ade1ade7eca63c4a4434779f056dd8950e2cb1c1ed9438adaa904"
    "4072e1c304fbb699d0d0cc42070480a3ac5580ba57bbc9b66debc030b04724fe5e7d02105c8ab270de2c4d3c58c1890040a03fe42cd329c934cfb087c1fab360"
    "2c19b303ce77aa5b92dcbc46e61c0f45a5eb5fdb8810bd5f86a5d51acc4a79d6c41742d5197a0d72a6224e5f26855ab74ed35b5d085e8ba713cc9c87d8f54897"
    "cba09b95960960f5657b5482389deb75abad8f4200f4809943e1ca873c19cf4caa99ef79f0ff32ecb17337e1b375523e310bc5e8843d13c8b3a5dff705ca9218")

prepare() {
    cd tdesktop-$pkgver-full
    patch --forward --strip=1 -i "${srcdir}/0001-Disable-sponsored-messages.patch"
    patch --forward --strip=1 -i "${srcdir}/0002-Disable-saving-restrictions.patch"
    patch --forward --strip=1 -i "${srcdir}/0003-Disable-invite-peeking-restrictions.patch"
    patch --forward --strip=1 -i "${srcdir}/0004-Disable-accounts-limit.patch"
}

build() {
    CXXFLAGS+=' -ffat-lto-objects'

    # Turns out we're allowed to use the official API key that telegram uses for their snap builds:
    # https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/blob/8fab9167beb2407c1153930ed03a4badd0c2b59f/snap/snapcraft.yaml#L87-L88
    # Thanks @primeos!
    cmake -B build -S tdesktop-$pkgver-full -G Ninja \
        -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON \
        -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="/usr" \
        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
        -DTDESKTOP_API_ID=611335 \
        -DTDESKTOP_API_HASH=d524b414d21f4d37f08684c1df41ac9c
    cmake --build build
}

package() {
    DESTDIR="$pkgdir" cmake --install build
}

[Layerex]

Updated