Patching tiger - it would not build as released upstream.

tiger/PKGBUILD

@@ -8,17 +8,21 @@ arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
 url="http://www.nongnu.org/tiger/"
 license=('GPL')
 depends=('perl')
-makedepends=('patch')
-backup=('opt/tiger/config' 'etc/tiger/tigerrc' 'etc/tiger/cronrc')
+makedepends=('patch' 'debianutils')
+backup=('etc/tiger/tigerrc' 'etc/tiger/cronrc')
 source=("http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz"
-        "${pkgname}-makefile.diff")
+        'tiger-makefile.diff'
+        'fix-genmsgidx-basedir.patch')
 md5sums=('f41076f645da9de937819bf6d516e546'
-         'aadd12186c717dfe202d55d1192851c2')
+         'aadd12186c717dfe202d55d1192851c2'
+         '97255dbd16a663b2494df8d90829945e')
 
 build() {
   cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
 
-  patch -Np0 -i ${srcdir}/$pkgname-makefile.diff
+  patch -Np0 -i "${srcdir}/tiger-makefile.diff"
+
+  patch -Np1 -i "${srcdir}/fix-genmsgidx-basedir.patch"
 
   install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/share/tiger" "${pkgdir}/usr/sbin"
 
@@ -30,7 +34,7 @@ build() {
               --with-tigerlog=/var/log/tiger \
               --with-tigerbin=/usr/sbin
 
-  make
+  make -j1
 }
 
 package() {

tiger/fix-genmsgidx-basedir.patch

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+diff -Naur a/util/genmsgidx b/util/genmsgidx
+--- a/util/genmsgidx	2011-12-28 11:58:04.399319906 +0000
++++ b/util/genmsgidx	2011-12-28 12:09:01.852424013 +0000
+@@ -34,7 +34,8 @@
+    esac
+ done
+ 
+-BASEDIR=${BASEDIR:=$basedir}
++BASEDIR="${BASEDIR:=$basedir}"
++BASEDIR="${BASEDIR%/}"
+ export BASEDIR
+ 
+ findcmd()
+@@ -96,7 +97,7 @@
+ haveallof variables BASEDIR || exit 1
+ 
+ # Clear idx file and detect error
+-> $BASEDIR/doc/explain.idx && {
++> "${BASEDIR}/doc/explain.idx" || {
+     echo "Error: Cannot write over the index file $BASEDIR/doc/explain.idx. Aborting"
+     exit 1
+ }