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pkgbuild have been updated, it would have been more useful if you tried to build my pkgbuild without glfw-x11 in chroot

I tried with the dependencies from Arch's official kitty package in a clean build:

depends=('python3' 'freetype2'  'fontconfig' 'wayland' 'libx11' 'libxkbcommon-x11' 'libxi'
         'hicolor-icon-theme' 'libgl' 'libcanberra' 'dbus' 'lcms2')
makedepends=('libxinerama' 'libxcursor' 'libxrandr' 'wayland-protocols' 'python-sphinx')

with extra makedepends: git and python-setuptools.

Did not need glfw-x11 nor glfw-wayland.

Edit: I think one key is libxi, which provides the required header files /usr/include/X11/extensions/XInput2.h. With libxi, then there's no need for glfw-x11. libxi is also listed in the dependencies from upstream: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/build.html#dependencies

glfw-x11 is needed at build time, you can try it yourself.

It seems kitty's source code comes with its own fork of glfw. And it links against that bundled glfw. So I think there's no need to put glfw-x11 in the makedepends. Besides, glfw-x11 conflicts with glfw-wayland.

if you came across this

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
kitty-terminfo: /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-kitty exists in filesystem (owned by kitty-git)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

just remove the file /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-kitty by

sudo rm -f /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-kitty

and try installing again.

It seems like starting with Kitty 0.18.4 package liblcms2 is required for building, at least that's how I read this error-message:

Package lcms2 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `lcms2.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'lcms2', required by 'virtual:world', not found
CC: gcc (10, 1)
The package lcms2 was not found on your system

And, thus, it should have corresponding entries for provides and conflicts...

provides=(kitty kitty-terminfo)
conflicts=(kitty kitty-terminfo)

That's because this package supplies it already (or it does now anyway, maybe it didn't last year):

failed to install kitty-terminfo: /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-kitty exists in filesystem (owned by kitty-git)

Note that the non-git version of this package has dependencies not found in this release. Especially kitty-terminfo seems significant.

@CjK libcanberra was added 2 days ago to depencies in the code, pkgbuild has been updated now, thanks