Opened 16 months ago
Last modified 15 months ago
#67892 new defect
xfconf failed to compile on Ventura arm64, and a potential workaround — at Initial Version
Reported by: | philberthfz (Philip LeBlond) | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
Component: | ports | Version: | 2.8.1 |
Keywords: | arm64 ventura, | Cc: | |
Port: | xfconf |
Description
There are no compiled binary packages for xfconf available yet. When macports attempts to compile, compilation fails with the message: Error: Failed to configure xfconf: configure failure: command execution failed.
It appears that the configuration step fails to run aclocal at the appropriate point.
I have identified a possible workaround, and am sharing it here in the hopes that I will be able to find it on google the next time I inevitably need to do this again. Given that the package itself appears unmaintained, consider this a best-effort workaround for anybody else pulling their hair out over this and that further problems will probably continue to exist. Consider also that I have sample size of exactly one install on one M1 Mac mini, so users on other machines with other software configurations will undoubtably encounter other issues - your mileage will vary.
Doing the following produced a probably-functional copy of xfconf for me:
1) Manually navigating to the appropriate work directory
(/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_xfce_xfconf/xfconf/work/xfconf-4.16.0)
2) sudo aclocal
3) sudo /opt/local/bin/xdt-autogen --prefix=/opt/local --disable-visibility
4) sudo make && sudo make install
5) sudo port -f activate xfconf
At least, this appears to generate a working xfconf. At the very least, other packages which depend on xfconf will build/install with no more errors than they otherwise would exhibit.