[cairo] Dev setup for cairo - containers ?

[Uli Schlachter]

Hi,

Am 06.09.22 um 14:26 schrieb Stuart Axon:
> 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 ?

Personally, I use LD_PRELOAD to run whatever I want with my dev-cairo. 
Something like LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/cairo/meson/build/dir/src/ program.

Cheers,
Uli
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