Opened 16 months ago

Last modified 15 months ago

#67892 new defect

xfconf @4.16.0 failed to compile on Ventura arm64, and a potential workaround — at Version 1

Reported by: philberthfz (Philip LeBlond) Owned by:
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 2.8.1
Keywords: arm64 ventura, Cc: barracuda156
Port: xfconf

Description (last modified by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt))

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.

Change History (1)

comment:1 Changed 15 months ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Cc: barracuda156 added
Description: modified (diff)
Keywords: ventura added; M1 apple silicon Ventura removed
Priority: LowNormal
Summary: xfconf failed to compile on Ventura arm64, and a potential workaroundxfconf @4.16.0 failed to compile on Ventura arm64, and a potential workaround

Thanks for the tip on getting it working.

It might be helpful it you attached a log showing what the problem was.

You should basically never need to force a port to activate.

As you know, this port is unmaintained. If you can provide a fix, please file a pull request.

This port, and the rest of xfce, should be updated to the latest stable versions (4.18.x). Maybe that will already fix the problem you saw.

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