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I can confirm it The package should add libstdc++5 as an dependency or it won't be buildable.

At first I got

[...]
==> Making package: fife 0.4.2-2 (Tue Jul  7 16:09:06 2020)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Missing dependencies:
  -> libstdc++5
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> ERROR: Could not resolve all dependencies.
[...]

After installing libstdc++5 I got:

[...]
- Configuring done
CMake Error in CMakeLists.txt:
  Imported target "Boost::system" includes non-existent path
    "/include"
  in its INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES.  Possible reasons include:
  * The path was deleted, renamed, or moved to another location.
  * An install or uninstall procedure did not complete successfully.
  * The installation package was faulty and references files it does not
  provide.

CMake Error in CMakeLists.txt:
  Imported target "Boost::system" includes non-existent path
    "/include"
  in its INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES.  Possible reasons include:
  * The path was deleted, renamed, or moved to another location.
  * An install or uninstall procedure did not complete successfully.
  * The installation package was faulty and references files it does not
  provide.

-- Generating done
CMake Generate step failed.  Build files cannot be regenerated correctly.
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
[...]

The compilation fail due to deprecated/unsupported swig flags

Modify the PKGBUILD file please to include this sed or create a patch

build() {
  cd "$_githubname-$pkgver"
  [[ -d "build" ]] && rm -r "build"
  mkdir -p "build" && cd "build"
  cmake \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr \
    ..
  sed -r -i 's/(-noproxydel|-fastinit|-fastunpack|-fastquery|-modernargs|-nobuildnone|-modern|-nosafecstrings)\b//g' CMakeFiles/fife*_swig_compilation.dir/build.make
  make
  # If compilation seems to stall at 99% for ages, do not abort!
  # While not perfectly convenient, that is to be expected from
  # SWIG. Eventually, you'll reach the holy triple-digit land.
}

An updated PKGBUILD can be found here.

I would happily adopt or co-maintain this package.

have the same problems like pmav99. fife-git works fine. Maybe a problem with glee which was replaced by glew in fife-git.

Compilation error: https://gist.github.com/pmav99/79b615fc5b6fd157161004b3a7c00524

I needed fifechan 1.4 to build

Compilation error:
Scanning dependencies of target _fifechan
[ 99%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/_fifechan.dir/fifechanPYTHON_wrap.cxx.o
/tmp/yaourt-tmp-dixi/aur-fife/src/fifengine-0.4.1/build/fifechanPYTHON_wrap.cxx: In function 'PyObject* _wrap_MouseListener_mouseWheelMovedRight(PyObject*, PyObject*)':
/tmp/yaourt-tmp-dixi/aur-fife/src/fifengine-0.4.1/build/fifechanPYTHON_wrap.cxx:5114:35: error: 'class fcn::MouseListener' has no member named 'mouseWheelMovedRight'; did you mean 'mouseWheelMovedUp'?
(arg1)->fcn::MouseListener::mouseWheelMovedRight(*arg2);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/tmp/yaourt-tmp-dixi/aur-fife/src/fifengine-0.4.1/build/fifechanPYTHON_wrap.cxx:5116:15: error: 'class fcn::MouseListener' has no member named 'mouseWheelMovedRight'; did you mean 'mouseWheelMovedUp'?
(arg1)->mouseWheelMovedRight(*arg2);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/tmp/yaourt-tmp-dixi/aur-fife/src/fifengine-0.4.1/build/fifechanPYTHON_wrap.cxx: In function 'PyObject* _wrap_MouseListener_mouseWheelMovedLeft(PyObject*, PyObject*)':
/tmp/yaourt-tmp-dixi/aur-fife/src/fifengine-0.4.1/build/fifechanPYTHON_wrap.cxx:5159:35: error: 'class fcn::MouseListener' has no member named 'mouseWheelMovedLeft'; did you mean 'mouseWheelMovedUp'?
(arg1)->fcn::MouseListener::mouseWheelMovedLeft(*arg2);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/tmp/yaourt-tmp-dixi/aur-fife/src/fifengine-0.4.1/build/fifechanPYTHON_wrap.cxx:5161:15: error: 'class fcn::MouseListener' has no member named 'mouseWheelMovedLeft'; did you mean 'mouseWheelMovedUp'?
(arg1)->mouseWheelMovedLeft(*arg2);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/_fifechan.dir/build.make:78: CMakeFiles/_fifechan.dir/fifechanPYTHON_wrap.cxx.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:105: CMakeFiles/_fifechan.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:128: all] Error 2
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
Aborting...
==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build fife.

[fife] v0.4.1-1: New patch release
[fife] v0.4.1-2: Correct fifechan dependency

The lag problem is here since years?
With fife 0.4.1 the lag is fixed.