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I want to start to use jhbuild. It creates an isolated system to compile unstable packages ant try them. But it's not clear to me how to add a missing library to it.

Steps:

$ sudo apt-get install jhbuild
$ mkdir -p /opt/gnome
$ chown `whoami`.`whoami` /opt/gnome
$ mkdir ~/checkout/gnome
$ jhbuild bootstrap

... all correct ...

$ jhbuild sysdeps --install

... problems ...

Required packages:
 Packages too old:
 (none)
No match with system package
 soundtouch (soundtouch-1.4.pc, required=0)
 libicu (icu-i18n.pc, required=4)
 libunistring
 yajl
 device-mapper
...

I read something about installing libicu here, but It do not explain where to checkout an how to compile.

I have tried

$ svn checkout http://source.icu-project.org/repos/icu/icu/tags/release-4-8/
$ cd release-4-8/source
$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gnome
$ make
$ make install

with no luck.

My system is a 64bits one. I say because I have made this hack already

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albfan
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If you have a 64bit system and jhbuild is installing into /opt/gnome then you need to set your libdir to install libraries into /opt/gnome/lib64

add --libdir=/opt/gnome/lib64 onto the autogen.sh line.

iain
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You can just run sudo-apt get install libicu. The sysdeps are system dependencies, so they don't need to be installed in the JHBuild checkout, just on your system.

You might find this wiki page helpful: https://wiki.gnome.org/HowDoI/Jhbuild

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