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I am working for a non-profit that is provisioning donated machines running xfce4. The weather plugin has been integral (nice feature) for our customers. I am trying to compile from source using build-debs and git according to this link:

XFCE4 Weather Plugin stopped working

I am currently running xubuntu 20.04 in a virtualbox vm trying to compile it to fix our image we will distribute, but I can't get cut'n paste from guest to host working. I'll have to 'wing it'. I get config.status error executing default-l commands:

./config.status: line 2127: po/Makefile: Permission denied and config.status: executing po/stamp-it commands ./config.status: 2145: po/Makefile: permission denied compilations stops.

I have looked at the code and is has something to do with changing file permissions to executable for a couple of files referenced as variables. (I have not compiled anything in like ah... forever. So I am behind the curve. I welcome your assistance.

Regards

Edit for steeldriver:

$ ls -ld po/{,Makefile} drwxrwxr-x 2 auditer auditer 4096 Mar 6 16:56 po/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10208 Mar 5 22:55 po/Makefile

       libweather_la-weather.lo

weather.c:2305:1: fatal error: opening dependency file .deps/libweather_la-weather.Tpo: Permission denied 2305 | XFCE_PANEL_PLUGIN_REGISTER(weather_construct) | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ compilation terminated.

Terence Golightly
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Don't bother compiling and grab this one from MX Linux.
http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/x/xfce4-weather-plugin/xfce4-weather-plugin_0.10.2-1~mx17_amd64.deb

Jay Philips
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Did you accidentally run one of the commands as root? Also, did you run a failed make command?

Whenever you start over, you should run make clean or sudo make clean if you need to. However, if you ran ./audogen.sh as root or if the clean commands don't help, then it would be best to start over.

First, cd out of the xfce4-weather-plugin directory and then move it out of the way:

cd ..
mv xfce4-weather-plugin xfce4-weather-plugin-initial

Now, download the files:

git clone https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-weather-plugin.git

cd into the directory, edit your ./autogen.sh file and autogenerate your make files:

cd xfce4-weather-plugin
sed -i 's/4.14.0/4.12.0/' ./autogen.sh
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr

If the command is a success, it will display a message that it is now okay to run make. If you get an error (probably to install a missing package), follow the suggested fix and then run ./autogen.sh again. Repeat this process until you reach success.

Finally, finish the installation with make and sudo make install

make
sudo make install

If you need to start over, you should run make clean or sudo make clean before you begin again.

mchid
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