diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/build-and-publish.yaml b/.gitea/workflows/build-and-publish.yaml
index b83929c..3216620 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/build-and-publish.yaml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/build-and-publish.yaml
@@ -45,8 +45,10 @@ jobs:
             # depends check via -d. Rationale: moonarch-git's runtime depends
             # include AUR-only packages (stasis, auto-cpufreq, ttf-ubuntusans-nerd)
             # which pacman can't resolve. Those deps aren't needed at build time.
-            MAKEDEPS=$(awk '/^makedepends=\(/,/^\)/' PKGBUILD | grep -oE "'[^']+'" | tr -d "'" | tr '\n' ' ')
-            if [ -n "$MAKEDEPS" ]; then
+            # Source the PKGBUILD in a subshell to read the array robustly —
+            # awk/grep parsing breaks on single-line vs multi-line formats.
+            MAKEDEPS=$(bash -c 'source ./PKGBUILD 2>/dev/null; printf "%s " "${makedepends[@]}"')
+            if [ -n "${MAKEDEPS// }" ]; then
               # shellcheck disable=SC2086
               sudo pacman -S --needed --noconfirm $MAKEDEPS
             fi