$NetBSD: patch-am,v 1.2 2015/12/06 11:35:55 wiz Exp $ on darwin configure script picks up private per-user tmp directory in /var/folders/xx/...+++... via the TMPDIR environment and cheerfully installs it in /usr/pkg/etc/dbus-1/session.conf meaning that only the user who installed the package will be able to write to that directory... except that dbus rejects directories with "+"'s in the filename so it won't work anyway. use configure --with-session-socket-dir=/tmp to work around this. found a description of this issue here: http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOSX/Quartz in the "Running from the commandline" section. dbus also cannot cope with $DISPLAY containing "/" chars (like in darwin ... /tmp/launch-kcvznx/:0 ) so get rid of the ":" as described here: https://trac.macports.org/attachment/ticket/16833/patch-dbus-launch-x11.c.diff --- tools/dbus-launch-x11.c.orig 2008-11-14 22:45:04.000000000 -0500 +++ tools/dbus-launch-x11.c 2008-11-14 22:45:44.000000000 -0500 @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ */ for (p = display; *p; ++p) { - if (*p == ':') + if (*p == ':' || *p == '/') *p = '_'; }