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vfs0097 users

The package will automatically apply a patch required for the vfs0097 reader if one is found in the system at build time, it will otherwise build for vfs0090. You can force a preferred behavior by exporting VFS0097=1 or =0.

If you have any issues, make sure talk about it https://gitter.im/Validity90/Lobby so it has a chance to get fixed.

GH issues have also been enabled by upstream, so make sure you check that as well: https://github.com/3v1n0/libfprint/

vfs0090 users

The driver should work as expected, but same as above for any issues.

dlainhart: Thanks for the suggestions, looks good to me. Package updated.

Howdy, I tried building this package in a chroot and I found a few problems in the PKGBUILD.

First off: it's missing 'libgusb' in depends. It's a hard dependency in meson.build so it ought to be in the PKGBUILD.

Second: Cairo is only required for the test suite, so it should be in checkdepends instead of depends. Quoting meson.build: # The following dependencies are only used for tests cairo_dep = dependency('cairo', required: false)

Third: Building in a chroot will cause meson to puke out with the following error message: Run-time dependency udev found: NO (tried pkgconfig)

libfprint/meson.build:208:8: ERROR: Dependency "udev" not found, tried pkgconfig Inspecting meson.build revealed that it's calling pkgconfig to look for the udevdir variable; this comes from /usr/share/pkgconfig/udev.pc: $ pkg-config --path --variable=udevdir udev /usr/share/pkgconfig/udev.pc /usr/lib/udev $ pacman -Qo /usr/share/pkgconfig/udev.pc /usr/share/pkgconfig/udev.pc is owned by systemd 246.6-1 Adding systemd to makedepends does indeed fix the build. Examining meson.build again shows that adding systemd as a makedepends can be avoided with meson configure -D udev_rules_dir=/usr/lib/udev/rules.d: if get_option('udev_rules') udev_rules_dir = get_option('udev_rules_dir')

    if udev_rules_dir == 'auto'
        udev_dep = dependency('udev')
        udev_rules_dir = udev_dep.get_pkgconfig_variable('udevdir') + '/rules.d'
    endif
endif

I prepared a patch to fix these issues: --- PKGBUILD.old 2021-10-26 07:38:20.879362789 -0400 +++ PKGBUILD 2020-10-26 07:38:08.535964485 -0400 @@ -9,8 +9,9 @@ arch=(i686 x86_64) url="https://github.com/3v1n0/libfprint" license=(LGPL) -depends=(libusb nss pixman gnutls openssl gobject-introspection glib2 cairo pixman nss openssl) +depends=(libusb nss pixman gnutls openssl gobject-introspection glib2 libgusb) makedepends=(git meson gtk-doc pkgconf usbutils) +checkdepends=(cairo) optdepends=( "fprintd: D-Bus daemon that manages fingerprint readers" "validity-sensors-tools: Flash, factory reset and pair Validity fingerprint sensors 009x" @@ -66,7 +67,7 @@

 build() {
   cd "$srcdir"
-  arch-meson $_pkgname build -D x11-examples=false -D doc=false
+  arch-meson $_pkgname build -D x11-examples=false -D doc=false -D udev_rules_dir=/usr/lib/udev/rules.d
   ninja -C build
 }

Oops, embarassing mistake. I indeed intended to use -N/--forward.

We should do a contest for the package with the highest pkgrel in the AUR, I'd win it :)

Ok, one more fix that I missed. You need patch -Np1, not patch -np1. -n means the patch is a "normal" (not "unified") diff.

@Stebalien patched, thank you.

So, it looks like the patch won't work if applied before the arch-meson ... line as that one will re-checkout the submodules (erasing the patch). I'm currently running the arch-meson command in the prepare function, but the alternative is to run it in build.

Thank you all for your feedback, all the reported issues should now be fixed.

Thanks @Stebalien for the patch.

Attempt to build via pamac on Manjaro Gnome yields:

|index f3c2072..e8b4619 100644 |--- a/vfs0090.h |+++ b/vfs0090.h

File to patch: Skip this patch? [y] Skipping patch. 2 out of 2 hunks ignored ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare(). Aborting...

Patch to fix the PKGBUILD: https://gist.github.com/5e6f91229968f92eaf85a0c971d1dc0c

1. Uses warning instead of messing around with color codes manually.
2. Checks out the appropriate submodules so the build works.

Sadly the neweest package change broke the aur package with the following error message

libfprint-vfs009x-git/PKGBUILD: line 36: local: RED: Readonly variable.