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callmejoe

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Registered: 2019-11-19

Posts: 80

[solved] thunar 4.20.2 build error installing form source

hey there, running into a build error.

i downloaded the 4.20.2 tarball
extracted contents
ran ./configure and seems to finish without issue

make throws these errors:

Making all in thunarx
make[2]: Entering directory '/root/zBuilds/thunar-thunar-4.20.2/thunarx'
  CC       libthunarx_3_la-thunarx-config.lo
  CC       libthunarx_3_la-thunarx-file-info.lo
  CC       libthunarx_3_la-thunarx-menu-provider.lo
  CC       libthunarx_3_la-thunarx-renamer.lo
  CC       libthunarx_3_la-thunarx-renamer-provider.lo
  CCLD     libthunarx-3.la
make[2]: *** No rule to make target 'Thunarx-3.0.typelib', needed by 'all-am'.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/root/zBuilds/thunar-thunar-4.20.2/thunarx'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:771: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/zBuilds/thunar-thunar-4.20.2'
make: *** [Makefile:598: all] Error 2

any ideas on how to fix? thanks
i am on archlinux kernel 6.13.8

Last edited by callmejoe (2025-04-10 04:27:06)

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,918

Re: [solved] thunar 4.20.2 build error installing form source

Are you building all of Xfce or just some packages?

For thunar, do you have installed or built its dependencies?

Is gobject-introspection installed?

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callmejoe

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Registered: 2019-11-19

Posts: 80

Re: [solved] thunar 4.20.2 build error installing form source

i do have xfce 4.20 installed from arch repos for quite some time now, but currently using wayfire. so i should have all the deps.

strangely though i did not have gobject-introspection installed.

after installing it, thunar installed succcessfully

thanks for the help!