Then check the directories $PKG_CONFIG_PATH for libxfce4ui* . In this case there's a libxfce4ui-2, which means they have changed the API version because there was an incompatible change (previously it was libxfce4ui-1). So update xfce4-embed-plugin as well and hope they have adapted to the API change (if not, we'll just get an error message again). This will probably happen for quite a few packages, so it's gonna take some work.