Hello Martin,
It seems I had xfce4-conf-4.13.6nb1 installed, perhaps from MH> ...Is your xfce4-conf installation older? That patch is > from 2019/02/06. It seems I had xfce4-conf-4.13.6nb1 installed, perhaps from some previous attempt to install Xfce4 or as part of xfce4-mousepad-0.4.0nb9. I purged any Xfce4 packages and sure enough, libwnck now builds! Many thanks for your help with this. -Andy Ball