Abiword problems

Im having trouble compiling Abiword 2.0.0.
Im using the 1.99 PKGBUILD.
Its odd, this happened when I tried to build 1.99, but after a couple reboots, the package built fine.
No luck with this though.
Anyone built is successfully?

Xentac wrote:pacman -R gtk-smooth-engine
[root@deimas mind]# pacman -R gtk-smooth-engine
error: could not find gtk-smooth-engine in database
M.

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