Hello, I am trying to compile the latest trunk svn of xfce into .debs with checkinstall for debian, and am getting this error when executing the configure script for libxfce4util: ./configure: line 20340: syntax error near unexpected token `GOBJECT,' ./configure: line 20340: `XDT_CHECK_PACKAGE(GOBJECT, gobject-2.0, 2.2.0)' I have already built and installed xfce4-dev-tools Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. checkout current svn trunk 2. build xfce4-dev-tools. and install 3. cd to libxfce4util 4. execute ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr Actual Results: ./configure: line 20340: syntax error near unexpected token `GOBJECT,' ./configure: line 20340: `XDT_CHECK_PACKAGE(GOBJECT, gobject-2.0, 2.2.0)' Expected Results: some sort of OK configure: exit 258
Sounds like your xfce4-dev-tools install is broken or nonexistant.
(In reply to comment #1) > Sounds like your xfce4-dev-tools install is broken or nonexistant. How can i test the validity of my xfce4-dev-tools install?