There is an updated pull request by olafmersmann against master on the void-packages repository https://github.com/olafmersmann/void-packages arpack-ng https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/27605 arpack-ng: update to 3.8.0. Since version 3.8.0 arpack-ng does not build the static library by default. I therefore dropped it from the package. A patch file from https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/27605.patch is attached