May fill a Bugreport about this packages ... and because of your Errormessages: There is an option called --ignore-arch (short: -A) for makepkg to ignore missing, incomplete and/or corrupted arch-arrays 2008/10/31 Yura Siamashka <yurand2@gmail.com>:

Hi

The official PKGBUILDs in core, extra, community often don't contain "arch" variable. Of course they can't be build with simple makepkg (missing arch error). I have read Arch Packaging Standards and find no mention about a situation where omiting "arch" variable is legal.

Am I missing something or these official PKGBUILDS just broken?

Here is list of such packages:

gscanbus xmahjongg ltrace fortune-mod-osfortune fortune-mod-subversion lincity transset nant libcroco audiofile aspell-fi libdmx xsmbrowser libsidplay gforth mplayer-skins fortune-mod-matrix festival-don user-mode-linux icmake festival-awb-arctic fortune-mod-jargon help2man scrot aspell-pt fortune-mod-friends barcode aspell-de trm gtksourceview-sharp-2.0 lha fortune-mod-starwars aspell-el fortune-mod-xfiles cd-discid fortune-mod-calvin xpp ccmalloc feh glsof libnet festival-kallpc16k wmix ed2k-gtk-gui fortune-mod-zx-error terminatorx id3v2 aspell-es scsh xbl fortune-mod-humorix beep fortune-mod-bond selectwm setserial gcal libid3tag djbdns mp3splt xbill gtkglarea festival-rablpc16k speedcrunch words abcde antiword gimageview libmusepack xvattr netkit-tftp gfpoken cgoban aspell-en gpart aiksaurus fortune-mod-scc fping camsource acct xpenguins_themes mpage speedtouch rep-gtk ascii fortune-mod-smac fortune-mod-chalkboard libmemcache fortune-mod-futurama aspell-nl ipvsadm xorg-xsm xorg-fonts-alias fortune-mod-oneliners unionfs-utils smtpprox cowsay fortune-mod-fgump fluxter fortune-mod-prog-style libmath++ glhack xbitmaps recode acpi cssed moon-lander fortune-mod-taow i8kmon gif2png netkit-bsd-finger penguin-command libots artwiz-fonts fortune-mod-shlomif-fav achessclock fortune-mod-kernelcookies ksymoops randline pdksh gift-fasttrack checkpassword fortune-mod-codehappy tsocks fortune-mod-bofh-excuses figlet dailystrips cvsps pinball xboard fortune-mod-buffy gimp-print-lprng libxmi gdome2 tpb fortune-mod-hayward libifp tango-icon-theme-extras wipe fortune-mod-tao latex2html stow xalf root-tail i8kutils lesstifextensions fssos-nsvs sonypid aspell-ru yodl tvtime nhc98 libxkbui fortune-mod-shlomif vnc transfig gozer giblib emovix-codecs ucspi-tcp windowmaker-extra aspell-fr time fortune-mod-homer ices fortune-mod-hitchhiker bmp-wma aspell-it dbh ucspi-unix tuxpuck rcs emelfm daemontools netkit-rsh fortune-mod-discworld libxxf86misc ifplugd flite dansguardian ms-sys fortune-mod-dune-quotes mp3wrap libogg fortune-mod-romeojuliet ddcxinfo-arch gmencoder fortune-mod-osho fortune-mod-joel-on-software

The script used to detect these packages is attached to this mail.

-- Yura Siamashka <yurand2@gmail.com>