I need help compiling mate-panel

[Sturm0]

I don't understand what I'm doing wrong.

I installed the dependencies using:
sudo apt install build-essential autopoint mate-common libglib2.0-dev yelp-tools gobject-introspection libgtk-3-dev libmate-desktop-dev libmate-menu-dev libwnck-3-dev libmateweather-dev libgtk-layer-shell-dev

I executed: test -f configure || ./bootstrap
and then: ./configure
But I get this error:

./configure: line 14572: syntax error near unexpected token `0.6.7'
./configure: line 14572: `GOBJECT_INTROSPECTION_CHECK(0.6.7)'

[lukefromdc]

What happens if you skip the test -f configure || ./bootstrap line and just go with autogen.sh followed by make ?

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On 12/23/2025 at 1:48 AM, "Sturm0" ***@***.***> wrote: I don't understand what I'm doing wrong. I installed the dependencies using: `sudo apt install build-essential autopoint mate-common libglib2.0- dev yelp-tools gobject-introspection libgtk-3-dev libmate-desktop- dev libmate-menu-dev libwnck-3-dev libmateweather-dev libgtk-layer- shell-dev` I executed: `test -f configure || ./bootstrap` and then:` ./configure` But I get this error: ``` ./configure: line 14572: syntax error near unexpected token `0.6.7' ./configure: line 14572: `GOBJECT_INTROSPECTION_CHECK(0.6.7)' ``` -- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: #1538 You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Message ID: <mate-desktop/mate-panel/repo- ***@***.***>

[Sturm0]

It works!!

But I don't understand why the instructions in the INSTALL file say:

Installation Instructions
*************************

Basic Installation
==================

The following shell commands:

test -f configure || ./bootstrap

./configure

make

make install

[lukefromdc]

INSTALL is an autogenerated file not present before ./autogen.sh has been run. If it's in the distributed tarballs (which are made with make distcheck its still autogenerated. I don't know what the inputs to that autogeneration are but this is actually the first I've heard of that line. I don't even see a bootstrap file in that directory so that command would be expected to fail. I suspect this may be a leftover from very old build code. I don't know how to fix it as I don't know enough about the innards of autotools to even diagnose it