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I am attempting to build a package using jhbuild but am running into an error during the build phase. The output for this phase is:

*** Building egg-list-box *** [1/1]
make -j 8
make  all-am
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/notgary/devel/git.gnome.org/egg-list-box'
  CC     test-sel.o
  CC     test-flow-box.o
  VALAC  test_list_vala.stamp
/bin/bash: --pkg: command not found
  VALAC  test_scrolled_vala.stamp
/bin/bash: --pkg: command not found
make[1]: *** [test_list_vala.stamp] Error 127
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[1]: *** [test_scrolled_vala.stamp] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/notgary/devel/git.gnome.org/egg-list-box'
make: *** [all] Error 2
*** Error during phase build of egg-list-box: ########## Error running make -j 8 *** [1/1]

The specific error message is

/bin/bash: --pkg: command not found

I'm pretty sure it's because I am missing the right package, but I don't know what one I should be installing. Every time I try to search the package directory for pkg I always end up with hist for dpkg.

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It turns out the issue was that this was a Vala app and a special set of build tools had to be installed for the build to succeed. Full details about building Vala apps on Ubuntu can be found here, but the important bit, installing the Vala compiler, is

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 7DAAC99C
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vala-team
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install valac-0.18 vala-0.18-doc valac-0.18-dbg