Packages needed to build Mate
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On Ubuntu 11.10: 

sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libglib2.0-dev libidl-dev \
    libdbus-1-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libpolkit-backend-1-dev flex libpopt-dev \
    bison libbz2-dev libgcrypt11-dev libcanberra-dev libgail-dev libgtk2.0-dev \
    libart-2.0-dev libglade2-dev libtasn1-3-bin libxklavier-dev libsoup2.4-dev \
    icon-naming-utils libunique-dev libcanberra-gtk-dev libwnck-dev \
    librsvg2-dev libpolkit-agent-1-dev gobject-introspection \
    libgirepository1.0-dev libupower-glib-dev intltool xsltproc \
    libtasn1-3-dev libtool gtk-doc-tools libgamin-dev \
    librarian-dev

Order in which to build Mate
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mate-doc-utils
mate-common
mate-corba
mate-conf
libmatecomponent
mate-mime-data
mate-vfs
libmate
libmatecanvas
libmatecomponentui
libmatekeyring
mate-keyring
libmateui
libmatenotify
libmatekbd
libmateweather
mate-icon-theme
mate-dialogs
mate-desktop
mate-file-manager
mate-notification-daemon
mate-backgrounds
mate-menus
mate-window-manager
mate-polkit
mate-settings-daemon (had to use mate-doc-prepare --force --copy; autoreconf -i --force)
mate-control-center (needs mate-window-manager installed, else complains about libmarco)
mate-panel (needs gobject-introspection removed on the host, or --disable-introspection in DEB_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_FLAGS in debian/rules)
mate-session-manager