<div dir="ltr"><div>You can use a container-based technology, like toolbox: <a href="https://containertoolbx.org/">https://containertoolbx.org/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Or you can use a tool like GNOME's jhbuild, which sets up a development environment the old way, by changing the environment: <a href="https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Jhbuild/">https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Jhbuild/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Ciao,</div><div> Emmanuele.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 6 Sept 2022 at 13:27, Stuart Axon <<a href="mailto:stuaxo2@yahoo.com">stuaxo2@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><div dir="ltr">Do people here use containers when developing cairo ?</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">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 ?<br></div><div><br></div><div>S++</div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><a href="https://www.bassi.io" target="_blank">https://www.bassi.io</a><br>[@] ebassi [@<a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a>]</div></div>