Problems building ntpsec on Arch (AUR)

[James Browning]

On Thursday, May 29, 2025 4:14:16 PM Pacific Daylight Time Gregory Boyce via 
users wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've been maintaining the ntpsec package in the Arch User Repository, and
> I've been encountering a couple of issues with the new 1.2.4 package.

:::big snip:::

> The second issue that I experienced is that 1.2.4 does not seem to
> respect --sbindir anymore.  Specifying --prefix /usr --sbindir /usr/bin
> results with ntpd in /usr/sbin.  Specifying --sbindir /usr/bin without
> --prefix /usr results in ntpd being delivered to /usr/local/sbin/ntpd.
> 
> I've been poking around waf a bit to try to better understand either issue,
> but so far I'm a bit stumped.
> 
> Do you have any suggestions?

That is an upstream issue [1] in waf they have worked on it in aeec9358, and 
will hopefully have it addressed in their next release.

[1] https://gitlab.com/ita1024/waf/-/issues/2470