You can use a container-based technology, like toolbox: https://containertoolbx.org/

Or you can use a tool like GNOME's jhbuild, which sets up a development environment the old way, by changing the environment: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Jhbuild/

Ciao,

Emmanuele.

On Tue, 6 Sept 2022 at 13:27, Stuart Axon <stuaxo2@yahoo.com> wrote:

Do people here use containers when developing cairo ?

I remember a long time ago breaking things by overwriting my system cairo - what method do people use to isolate their builds from the system cairo ?

S++

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