Clemmitt,
Thank you so much for the reply. Your solution WORKED, was super helpful and practically saved my week
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For anyone else using the above, just read through the PKGBUILD file to make sure you've covered all references to the arch type. For example in my case where I've installed
chromium-dev I had to edit the following (on line 126)
"elif [ "${CARCH}" = "x86_64" ]; then" to
"elif [ "${CARCH}" = "x86_64" ] || [ "${CARCH}" = "aarch64" ] ; then".
In the end chromium-dev installation still gave me errors upon prepare() while attempting to install nacl/pnacl which doesn't seem to support aarch64 (at least with the provided build). So I'll see how I get around that. But otherwise for the rest of the packages I've attempted, the above method worked fine.
Cheeres,
Sal