Problems building ntpsec on Arch (AUR)

[James Browning]

On Thursday, May 29, 2025 6:42:31 PM Pacific Daylight Time James Browning via 
users wrote:
> 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

glack, suggestions. Get waf 2.0.25 which is known to work from [2] and use it 
to build NTPsec; 2.0.27 [3] should also work.

[2] https://waf.io/waf-2.0.25
[3] https://waf.io/waf-2.0.27