An important side note: This is where the configs have disappeared. :-)

@emes Nope, I don’t plan to maintain any packages. :-) BTW, it turns out that the latest hiccup can be resolved by adding libsecp256k1-git as a dependency. (Side note: The libsecp256k1 from community won’t do, because it doesn’t contain /usr/include/secp256k1_extrakeys.h required by the build.) More details are here. (Someone claims there that a reboot is required, but AFAICT that’s not the case; a plain dependency and package installation will do.)

@andrej, perhaps you may start with a package named cardano-node-bin then? That would match the AUR convention. As for this package, I have no time to maintain it updated, so I'm open to takeover offers.

Because the 1.35.x version no longer builds on Arch, an obvious question is whether it would make sense to switch to a binary distribution like this one. Otherwise each and every version will include new challenges, some of which cannot be solved within reasonable time + effort…

To be able to build I changed PKGBUILD makedepends dependency ghc8.10>=8.10.4 to ghc8.10-bin as it is the dependency listed in this page.

makepkg ran successfully after that, but I'm puzzled why is this not the default. Was this a sensible thing to do?

A few random (almost) off-topic comments:

1. You need at least version 1.32.1 nowadays for the latest gLiveView script.
2. The cardano-node-testnet.service file silently disappears, because it is never installed. While cardano-node.service is installed right here, there is no counterpart for cardano-node-testnet.service, so it’s not in the package.
3. The runtime options recommendations have recently changed (and expanded). Here’s a relevant thread and you’ll find more by searching for missed slot leader checks. I’m currently using +RTS -N --nonmoving-gc -H4G -A64M -n4M -qb0 -I0 -RTS, for example (on a Ryzen 3950X (64 MB L3), 128 GB RAM). But never copy this blindly; instead read the runtime documentation and check what exactly makes sense for your setup.

Could somebody explain how to configure the system so one can build this package? I only was successful building it with the PKGBUILD of lsf.

It would be great to add +RTS -N -RTS into the unit file after run, based on this context.

Another quick note: I've moved the PKGBUILD using ghcup to a separate repository at https://gitlab.com/p3lol/cardano-pkgbuilds . If that helps anyone: great!

Huge thanks to @emes for doing all the (actual) work on maintaining things here! That way, I can just grab that and modify things to make them work with ghcup ^^