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OK, I added 'staticlibs' as option in PKGBUILD.

Ah, problem solved: I had wrong syntax.
The docs say, when to use an array, but not the syntax of an array...

Trying around to use staticlibs I got an error message, that it is an unknown option.
Someone here who wants to explain it?

regarding staticlibs, see this comment on the AUR mailinglist:

https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2013-November/026163.html

So, it is not wrong, that staticlibs option is not activated.
As this is AUR, you can change the PKGBUILD by yourself.
Nevertheless, I think about possibly activating that option.
Until then you can activate staticlibs by yourself before building the package...

PKGBUILD is broken. stuff below needs to be done and staticlibs should be added as an option.

Yes. The AUR guidelines say variables are to be avoided but AUR OCaml guidelines uses a variable that often causes problems. Take out OCAMLFIND_DESTDIR and DOCDIR and the following should work:

build() {
cd ${srcdir}/xml-light
make all doc
make opt
}

package() {
cd ${srcdir}/xml-light
mkdir -p ${pkgdir}$(ocamlfind printconf destdir)
mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}
rm -rf test.cmi
cp ${srcdir}/META .
env DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" \
OCAMLFIND_DESTDIR=${pkgdir}$(ocamlfind printconf destdir) \
ocamlfind install xml-light META *.mli *.cmi *.cma *.a *.cmxa *.cmx
cp doc/* ${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}
}

ooops, with a newly setup Arch system I encountered problems with the package.
So, a new version might be necessary...
Did nobody else enountered building problems with pkgrel 3?

New package release now.
Hope it works for you too.

It does not build.

complete build-log:

==============================================
ocamlyacc xml_parser.mly
ocamlc xml.mli
ocamlc xml_parser.mli
ocamllex xml_lexer.mll
mkdir doc
ocamldoc -sort -html -d doc xml.mli dtd.mli xmlParser.mli
File "xml_parser.mli", line 14, characters 48-61:
Error: Unbound module Dtd
make: *** [xml_parser.cmi] Error 2
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
228 states, 1162 transitions, table size 6016 bytes
File "xmlParser.mli", line 57, characters 30-41:
Error: Unbound module Dtd
Warning: Element XmlParser not found
Warning: Element XmlParser not found
1 error(s) encountered
make: *** [doc] Error 1
^[[1m^[[31m==> ERROR:^[(B^[[m^[[1m A failure occurred in build().^[(B^[[m
^[[1m Aborting...^[(B^[[m
==============================================

If it helps, I can cd into the xml-light directory, run the commands in the PKGBUILD

OCAMLFIND_DESTDIR="${pkgdir}$(ocamlfind printconf destdir)"
DOCDIR="${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}"

build() {
cd ${srcdir}/xml-light
#echo -e "\nxml_parser.cmi:\n\tocamlc xml_parser.mli\n" >> Makefile
make all doc
make opt
}
and the package appears to build. Next I commented out the build portion of the PKGBUILD, ran makepkg, and installed xml-light. I haven't tested it yet.

Myra