Getting failures trying to build glib from git

[Jason Crain]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 06:38:55PM -0400, Stephen Oberholtzer wrote:
> What do I need to do to be able to bisect the upstream code?

Debian packages start from tarballs, not the git repo, so I'm not
surprised that isn't working.  When I use 'git bisect' to track down a
problem, I just use the git repo without including a debian directory
with something like this:

$ jhbuild shell # to set up environment variables and LD_LIBRARY_PATH
$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/jhbuild/install
$ make && make install

Then irssi should run against your local glib due to LD_LIBRARY_PATH.