How to compile the ubuntu mate desktop?

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#1

I download the new source of ubuntu mate from github. following the wiki, I compiled the mate-common source. It failed. I am beginner, Can someone help me . Did I miss some lib or tools? Thank you so much .

gengshul@shaunxand06:~/work/temp/mate-common$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
checking for autoreconf >= 2.53...
testing autoreconf... found 2.69
Checking for forbidden M4 macros...
Processing ./configure.ac
Running autoreconf...
autoreconf: Entering directory .' autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext autoreconf: running: aclocal --force --warnings=no-portability autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force --warnings=no-portability autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Autoheader autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing --warnings=no-portability autoreconf: Leaving directory.'
Running ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode --prefix=/usr ...
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... yes
checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating macros/Makefile
config.status: creating doc-build/Makefile
config.status: creating doc-build/mate-doc-common
config.status: creating doc/Makefile
Now type make' to compile mate-common gengshul@shaunxand06:~/work/temp/mate-common$ make Making all in macros make[1]: Entering directory/home/AP/gengshul/work/temp/mate-common/macros'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for all'. make[1]: Leaving directory/home/AP/gengshul/work/temp/mate-common/macros'
Making all in doc-build
make[1]: Entering directory /home/AP/gengshul/work/temp/mate-common/doc-build' make[1]: Nothing to be done forall'.
make[1]: Leaving directory /home/AP/gengshul/work/temp/mate-common/doc-build' Making all in doc make[1]: Entering directory/home/AP/gengshul/work/temp/mate-common/doc'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for all'. make[1]: Leaving directory/home/AP/gengshul/work/temp/mate-common/doc'
make[1]: Entering directory /home/AP/gengshul/work/temp/mate-common' make[1]: Nothing to be done forall-am'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/AP/gengshul/work/temp/mate-common'

#2

HI @booklin,

why do you want to compile it when the full version is available already?. I assume you want the 18.04 Ubuntu Mate dev version?:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-mate/daily-live/current/HEADER.html :smiley:

#3

HI @wolfman,
Thank you for your reply . I try to learn the ubuntu mate system and modify the source code. Do you know where I can find a least building guide document. thank you so much.

br
book lin

#4

Hi @booklin,

here are a few links for you:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/16.04/release/source/

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/SourceCode

I hope it helps. :smiley:

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#5

Somebody please ANSWER THE QUESTION AS ASKED! I'm trying to test Mate 1.23 on Ubuntu-mate 18.04. Component builds produce

checking for SYNCTEX... no configure: error: "SyncTeX support is disabled since library version 1.21 or newer not found"

Installing libsynctex1 didn't fix it. Nor does configure seem to take a toggle to ignore synctex, whatever it might be.

#6

Same thing here. I'm trying to compile the new Mate 1.24 on LFS and getting the exact same SyncTeX error message, when compiling Atril. I compiled TeXLive and have the libsynctex.so library, but still get the same error.
Mate-Terminal and caja compile without issue. Engrampa is giving me a segfault coredump.

#7

Ok... I got Atril to compile now at least. To fix the SyncTeX problem I don't know why ldconfig isn't picking it up in /opt/texlive/2019 but it wasn't so I made a symbolic link for the libraries to /usr/lib and that worked. I also don't know the correct way of including the kpathsea header files, so I sym linked the kpathsea folder from /opt/texlive/2019/include to backend/dvi/mdvi-lib in the atril source folder and then make worked.
So, not the best or right way, but it worked.