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2026-09-22: aarch64 build fails – ffmpeg7.1 dependency never built for aarch64

ffmpeg7.1 (7.1.3-1.1) is a custom package this project builds itself (see its own PKGBUILD comment: official extra/ffmpeg moved to 9.x and removed AVCodec struct fields makemkv’s old code needs, so we pin+rebuild 7.1 under /usr/include/ffmpeg7.1 / /usr/lib/ffmpeg7.1 instead). It’s only ever been published for x86_64 – confirmed directly on eurobuild14 (the aarch64 board): pacman -Si ffmpeg7.1 -> not found.

Not a makemkv PKGBUILD bug. Fixing this properly means building ffmpeg7.1 itself for aarch64 first – which has a large dependency tree of its own (aom, dav1d, glslang, libplacebo, rav1e, svt-av1, vmaf, x264, x265, etc, see pacman -Si ffmpeg7.1’s Depends On), most of which may also need aarch64 builds. That’s a bigger undertaking than a simple rebuild – not attempted this pass, flagging for a deliberate decision rather than opening the whole chain unprompted.

2026-09-24: fixed – aarch64 built + published

Turned out to be a much smaller chain than feared: checking every ffmpeg7.1 dependency against eurobuild14’s repos directly (pacman -Si <dep>) found only one genuinely missing package – svt-av1 (official Arch restricts it to arch=(x86_64), no ARM build ever existed, even though upstream SVT-AV1 has NEON support). Every other apparent “MISSING” (jack, libgl, sdl2, onevpl) was a false negative from pacman -Si not resolving virtual provides= matches (jack2, libglvnd, sdl2-compat, libvpl all satisfy them fine).

Fix chain:

  1. New adapted/svt-av1 – forked official Arch’s PKGBUILD, added aarch64 to arch=() (was x86_64 only). Built+published clean for both x86_64 and aarch64. (Briefly landed under private/ at first, corrected to adapted/ same day – see its own memory file.)
  2. Migrated ffmpeg7.1 from the untracked local-install/ convention into adapted/ffmpeg7.1 (git-tracked) so a local deviation – aarch64 added to arch=() – has somewhere to live; removed the install_only_packages line. pkgrel 1.1 -> 1.2. Built + published clean for x86_64 (refresh) and aarch64 (new).
  3. Retried this package: aarch64 built and published cleanly, 1.18.4-1.1. eurobuild14 needed a pacman -Sy first both times (to pick up the freshly-published svt-av1, then ffmpeg7.1) – a stale local db on the board looks identical to “genuinely missing” until you resync.

Temporarily set REMOTE_BUILD_MAKEFLAGS_eurobuild14=-j4 (was -j1) in config/remote_build.conf for this session’s three builds (svt-av1, ffmpeg7.1, makemkv), per user request – reverted back to -j1 afterward, same session. No swap-thrashing observed at -j4 across all three (unlike eurobuild5’s confirmed issue at -j4 on a heavier Qt6 package), but reverted anyway since it was only asked for temporarily.

i686 still fails for the exact same class of reason: ffmpeg7.1 was never built for i686 either (arch=(x86_64 aarch64) only) – pending, out of scope for this pass, not a new regression.