Could the reason be some syntax errors? There are a lot of quotation marks too much. And the settings of your quotation marks seem to be quite inconsistent.
> build() { > cd "${srcdir}/$pkgname-$pkgver" Better: cd ${srcdir}/$pkgname-$pkgver > package() { > cd "${srcdir}/$pkgname-$pkgver" Better: cd ${srcdir}/$pkgname-$pkgver > make prefix="${pkgdir}"/usr install Better: make prefix=${pkgdir}/usr install > install -D -d -m755 "${pkgdir}"/usr/share Better: install -D -d -m755 ${pkgdir}/usr/share > install -D -m644 "${srcdir}/$pkgname-$pkgver"/COPYING \ > "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/licenses/"${pkgname}"/LICENSE Better: install -D -m644 ${srcdir}/$pkgname-$pkgver/COPYING ${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE Heiko