Re: xfce4-power-manager fails to build on NetBSD

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

"David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost> writes:

> On Wed, 07 May 2025 at 08:42:58 -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> It seems the issue is that in xfpm-pm-helper.c, it expects one of
>> BACKEND_TYPE_${OPSYS} to be defined, and upstream has support for
>> Linux,
>> FreeBSD, OpenBSD.   There is patches/patch-src_xfpm-pm-helper.c which
>> adds BACKEND_TYPE_NETBSD, but I don't see how configure.ac is patched
>> to
>> add NetBSD, or the OS type is probed.
>> 
>> Is there  an uncommitted patch someplace?  Does this build for anyone
>> else?
>
> The issue is in part caused by the recent update to upower, which
> started pulling in polkit as a buildlink dependency. But really this
> simply exposed a pre-existing issue with this package itself, which has
> kind of been bit-rotting over time. The update made to it to 4.20
> incorrectly dropped a build fix patch, which was meant for non-NetBSD
> but more recently was also papering over the fact, yes, NetBSD isn't
> even defined as a target upstream and there's no patch being carried
> for that, either. (So, the package built but was useless in at least
> some regards for NetBSD.)
>
> There is more to this than just that, I'm sorry, I simply don't have
> time to type out a detailed explanation today. I've reviewed what's
> going on and believe I understand how to fix the builds (NetBSD and
> SunOS, anyway, which worked before). Having said that, I can't actually
> test that this package works as I don't have viable hardware to throw at
> it. (I think that's been a challenge for multiple contributors here over
> time.)

Thanks.

I don't actually want to run it, but it's part of the meta package.
Should we just comment it out from there until fixed?