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-If you want to hack on the GLib project, you'll need to have the
-following packages installed:
-
-        - Meson 0.48.0
-        - GNU gettext 0.10.40
-        - pkg-config 0.16
-        - gtk-doc
-        - libffi 3.0.0
-
-To compile a Git version of glib on your system, you will need to take
-several steps to setup the tree for compilation.  You can do all these
-steps at once by running:
-
-        checkout/glib# meson _build
-
-For information about submitting patches see the CONTRIBUTING.md file. For
-information about major design decisions, see the docs/README.rationale file.