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
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.