For a while now gnumeric-minimal fails to build and I can't interpret the error or find anything about it

checking for perl... perl
./configure: line 14728: syntax error near unexpected token `no-lc-dist'
./configure: line 14728: `YELP_HELP_INIT(no-lc-dist)'
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().

The previous edition is still functional

PKBUILD:
depends=("goffice>=0.10.${_minorver}")
makedepends=('intltool' 'itstool')
sorry, i can't help you about that, maybe you can ask at upstream or open an issue to the AUR package maintainer
9 months later
New problem with gnumeric-minimal, it needs goffice 10.48 which is not build yet in arch because I guess too many dependent packages haven't updated yet.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnumeric-minimal/# comment-763458

go to /tmp make a new file PKGBUILD with contents: 
# Maintainer: Jan de Groot <jgc@ archlinux.org>
# Contributor: Aaron Griffin <aaron@ archlinux.org>

pkgname=goffice
pkgver=0.10.48
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A GLib/GTK+ set of document-centric objects and charting library"
url="https://git.gnome.org/browse/goffice"
arch=(x86_64)
license=(GPL)
depends=(librsvg gtk3 libgsf libspectre libxslt lasem)
makedepends=(intltool gtk-doc gobject-introspection autoconf-archive git)
_commit=f3f7d440 # tags/GOFFICE_0_10_48^0
source=("git+https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/goffice.git# commit=$_commit")
sha256sums=('SKIP')

pkgver() {
  cd $pkgname
  git describe --tags | sed 's/^GOFFICE_//;s/_/./g;s/-/+/g'
}

prepare() {
  cd $pkgname
  NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh
}

build() {
  cd $pkgname
  ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \
      --localstatedir=/var --disable-static --enable-introspection --enable-gtk-doc

  sed -i -e 's/ -shared / -Wl,-O1,--as-needed\0/g' libtool
  make
}

package() {
  cd $pkgname
  make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install
}
% makepkg

install/upgrade the new goffice
% sudo pacman -U goffice*.xz

Then try upgrading gnumeric-minimal again from AUR

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