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for all the people that wish to build Clutter on Linux without having conflicts with their distribution packages we now have a JHBuild moduleset for tracking Clutter's development cycle.

the instructions are pretty simple; to start, you'll have to install a recent version of jhbuild (a lot of distributions package old snapshots):

  git clone git://git.gnome.org/jhbuild
  cd jhbuild
  ./autogen.sh && make && make install

you won't require superuser privileges for installing JHBuild, or for building Clutter using JHBuild.

then, you will have to download the JHBuild configuration (see link on this post) and move it to the correct location:

  mv jhbuildrc-clutter.txt ~/.jhbuildrc-clutter

the last step will build Clutter and its dependencies (except for the GL stack: for that you're better off using your distribution's packages):

  jhbuild -f ~/.jhbuildrc-clutter build

done! :-)

along with the various libraries, in the moduleset there are meta-modules:

• meta-clutter: builds Clutter and the basic integration libraries (Clutter-GStreamer, Clutter-GTK)
• meta-clutter-extra: like meta-clutter, but it includes more integration libraries and NBTK, the Clutter-based Moblin toolkit
• meta-pyclutter: like meta-clutter, but for the Python bindings

happy building, and have fun!