[gtk-osx-devel] Gtk OSX build not working for me

[Matthew Allen <memecode gmail com>]

I'm trying to follow the build guide here:

https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/GTK/OSX/Building

But it seems to be broken. Firstly the download link to 'gtk-osx-build-setup.sh' is broken. Not a good omen. I'm assuming that maybe that file is here instead?

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk-osx/blob/master/gtk-osx-setup.sh

Anyway I tried running that and it eventually worked. The next command is:

jhbuild bootstrap

And that gets as far as:

(build) bash-3.2$ jhbuild bootstrap
Loading .env environment variables…
*** Checking out m4 *** [1/29]
jhbuild bootstrap: failed to unpack /Users/build/gtk/source/pkgs/m4-1.4.18.tar.xz

I did previously add some paths to my profile:

export PATH=/Users/build/.new_local/share/pyenv/versions/3.6.8/bin:/Users/build/.new_local/bin:$PATH

And I've checked that my python version is actually 3.6.8. The system python is 2.7.

Running from a new user account. I do have macports on my main account, but none of those paths are available on the build account.

I wish I could just download a complete pre-built version of Gtk3 for mac.

Regards