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# Building GStreamer from git
> Is there a way to test or develop against GStreamer from git without interfering with my system GStreamer installed from packages?
## Is there a way to test or develop against GStreamer from git without interfering with my system GStreamer installed from packages?
Yes! You have two options: you can either run GStreamer in an
uninstalled setup (see [How do I develop against an uninstalled
GStreamer copy?](#developing-uninstalled-gstreamer)), or you can use
GNOME's jhbuild.
> How do I check out GStreamer from git ?
## How do I check out GStreamer from git?
GStreamer is hosted on Freedesktop.org. GStreamer consists of
various parts. In the beginning, you will be interested in the
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The [modules page](http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/modules/) has a list
of active ones together with a short description.
> How do I get developer access to GStreamer git ?
## How do I get developer access to GStreamer git?
If you want to gain developer access to GStreamer git, you should
ask for it on the development lists, or ask one of the maintainers
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Once you have all these items, see
<http://freedesktop.org/wiki/AccountRequests> for what to do with them.
> I ran autogen.sh, but it fails with aclocal errors. What's wrong ?
## I ran autogen.sh, but it fails with aclocal errors. What's wrong?
```
+ running aclocal -I m4 -I common/m4 ...
aclocal: configure.ac: 8: macro `AM_DISABLE_STATIC' not found in library
aclocal: configure.ac: 17: macro `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' not found in library
aclocal failed
```
What's wrong?
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found by "-Wall". We want people to actively hit and report or fix them.
If for any reason you want to bypass these flags and you are certain
it's the right thing to do, you can run
it's the right thing to do, you can run:
```
make ERROR_CFLAGS=""
```
to clear the CFLAGS for error checking.