Problems building ntpsec on Arch (AUR)

[Gregory Boyce]

On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 9:54 PM James Browning via users <users at ntpsec.org>
wrote:

> 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
>
>
Thank you!  Dropping waf-2.0.27 into the source tree solved the problem.
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