Re: Building mate and xfce4 stops at mate-settings-daemon

["David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>]

On Fri, 2021-05-21 at 09:51 +0100, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
> On Fri, 21 May 2021 at 06:03, David H. Gutteridge
> <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost> wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 20 May 2021 at 13:18:18 -0300, Mandacarú Cascavel wrote:
> > > Hi, Friends.
> > > 
> > > I'm trying to build mate and xfce4 from pkgsrc, but compilation
> > > stops
> > > at mate-settings-daemon, writing the following log: (NetBSD-
> > > current,
> > > amd64)
> > > 
> > > checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes
> > > checking for XINPUT... yes
> > > checking for FONTCONFIG... yes
> > > checking X11/extensions/XKB.h usability... yes
> > > checking X11/extensions/XKB.h presence... yes
> > > checking for X11/extensions/XKB.h... yes
> > > checking for LIBMATEKBDUI... yes
> > > checking for LIBCANBERRA... yes
> > > checking for LIBMATEMIXER... yes
> > > checking for GIOUNIX... yes
> > > checking for NSS... yes
> > > checking for POLKIT... no
> > > configure: error: PolicyKit support explicity enabled but not
> > > available
> > > *** Error code 1
> > [...]
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I think perhaps there's something different about your build
> > environment
> > than most. Do you have any custom settings in mk.conf? And when you
> > say
> > you're running NetBSD-current, what is the actual build date of it
> > (the
> > userland, that is)? Also, what means are you using to build? pbulk?
> > pkg_
> > rolling-replace? Manually typing "make install" or the like?
> > 
> > I recently built the mate meta-package on NetBSD 9.99.82/amd64, with
> > kernel and userland from May 3rd. There was no issue for me. I'm
> > running
> > another bulk build now with updated pkgsrc (though the same state of
> > the
> > base system), but it hasn't finished yet.
> > 
> > You also mention Xfce, but mate-settings-daemon isn't a dependency
> > of
> > it, so it must be failing elsewhere for you with Xfce? I
> > successfully
> > built the xfce4 meta-package a couple of days ago, from pkgsrc that
> > was
> > current as of that time, on NetBSD 9.2, without any issue.
> > 
> > Looking at pkgsrc bulk build logs, I didn't notice any failures
> > there,
> > either. My builds include the polkit dependencies, as I expect the
> > bulk
> > builds would, since that's the default. (My builds are always done
> > using
> > pbulk.)
> 
> I do my rebuilds with pkg_rolling-replace, usually once or twice a
> week, on a -current system following -current pkgsrc. Both mate and
> xfce4 always build without any problems. My last successful build of
> them was from the 16th of May.

My latest test pbulk build finished successfully the other day. No issue
with mate-settings-daemon with pkgsrc-current as of May 20th, NetBSD
9.99.82/amd64 as of May 3rd, so there's probably something specific to
the original poster's build environment involved.

Dave