see in configure.ac for check
this is error without gnome-common
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checking for glib-genmarshal... /usr/bin/glib-genmarshal
checking for glib-mkenums... /usr/bin/glib-mkenums
./configure: line 21736: GNOME_COMMON_INIT: command not found
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-pkg-config... no
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for GDU_MODULE_VERSION_CHECK... yes
./configure: line 22014: GNOME_MAINTAINER_MODE_DEFINES: command not found
./configure: line 22015: GNOME_COMPILE_WARNINGS: command not found
./configure: line 22016: GNOME_CXX_WARNINGS: command not found
./configure: line 22017: GNOME_DEBUG_CHECK: command not found
checking locale.h usability... yes
checking locale.h presence... yes
checking for locale.h... yes
checking for LC_MESSAGES... yes
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