Created attachment 6622 output of make and configure for xfdashboard 5.9 As discussed here: https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce/2016-March/034873.html I've tried installing as many libraries as I can seem to find information on which might include these missing files. I've attached the output of both configure and make. Please let me know if there's anything else that can help you determine what I need to do. I didn't initially file a bug because I wasn't sure if this would be considered an actual bug. On Debian Sid (8.3.x // testing) using XFCE 4.12.
No problem. I asked for it ;) And a "bug" is not always a "bug" but an issue, problem or even just a question. So it's okay for me to file a "bug" also in this cases :) But back to your problem. In the discussion on the mailing list you quoted these lines: ---- In file included from enums.c:31:0: enums.h:30:25: fatal error: glib-object.h: No such file or directory ---- But in the attachment I did not find any of these. Did I not see it or is it a completely different compile run? What source archive did you use to compile xfdashboard? Did you download the offical tarball from http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfdashboard/0.5/xfdashboard-0.5.90.tar.bz2 or did you download the (do-not-use) tarball from Github? I see also a lot of libraries and header files found and installed at /usr/local. Have you compiled nearly everthing from source? Did you also install Xfce 4.12 from source and at /usr/local? I know a lot of question ....
Well, that was from at the time. I've since installed more libraries in hopes of getting the missing file, and perhaps I did? I installed XFCE 4.12 as part of the Debian Sid/testing installation, so no, I didn't compile it from source. I believe I did compile a few things that were outdated in the Debian repo initially, and I had previously managed to get the stable version of XFdashboard running on another machine using an identical installation. However, on further review, I do still get that error. I think it's the way I did the output to text file that did not display it all. My bash-foo is not what it should be after all these years. The screenshot attached above shows the most recent error on "make." Confirmed: 0.5.90 is the one I'm using.
Created attachment 6623 most recent make
Maybe some search path for header files are messed up. You should run "make V=1" instead of just "make" to compile it to get a more verbose output. In the command "gcc" run by make should a lot of "-I..." be added whereby each one is a search path for header files. These search paths will be used when header files are included with "#include <...>" Could you run "make V=1" and attach the output again? At least I can say it doesn't look like a bug at xfdashboard. I was thinking about this first because I had another issue like that but I turned out that the wrong tarball archive was used.
No reaction and stable version of 0.6 series already released. Development continues in unstable 0.7.x version.