Request #16354 has been rejected by diabonas [1]: An updated version 1.0.6 is available in the project's Mercurial repository, even though no release tarball seems to have been created: http://hg.code.sf.net/p/amide/code/rev/1b94a6ceadd4 Please try building based on that commit and see if it works (building from a fixed commit is perfectly acceptable and doesn't make this a VCS package, it is only a VCS package if it tracks the tip of a branch instead of specifying a fixed version). Given that the development of this package appears to have stalled in early 2017, I would rather get rid of the VCS package amide-hg instead of the stable one, since tracking the current development is not necessary any more. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/diabonas/