diff --git a/projects/gnome.org/json-glib/package.yml b/projects/gnome.org/json-glib/package.yml
index d30378e1..9135319f 100644
--- a/projects/gnome.org/json-glib/package.yml
+++ b/projects/gnome.org/json-glib/package.yml
@@ -1,14 +1,17 @@
 distributable:
   url: https://download.gnome.org/sources/json-glib/{{version.marketing}}/json-glib-{{version}}.tar.xz
   strip-components: 1
+
 versions:
   url: https://download.gnome.org/sources/json-glib/cache.json
   match: /json-glib-\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.tar\.xz/
   strip:
     - /^json-glib-/
     - /\.tar\.xz/
+
 dependencies:
   gnome.org/glib: ^2.78
+
 build:
   dependencies:
     gnu.org/gettext: '*'
@@ -16,11 +19,20 @@ build:
     mesonbuild.com: '*'
     ninja-build.org: '*'
   script:
+    # clang-15 finds some kind of syntax error here
+    - run: sed -i 's/guint fchar/;guint fchar/' json-scanner.c
+      if: darwin
+      working-directory: json-glib
+    # avoid requiring a bunch more stuff
+    - run: MESON_ARGS="$MESON_ARGS -Ddocumentation=disabled"
+      if: '>=1.9.2'
+
     - meson setup build $MESON_ARGS
     - meson compile -C build --verbose
     - meson install -C build
+
     - run: ln -s json-glib-1.0/json-glib json-glib
-      working-directory: "{{prefix}}/include"
+      working-directory: '{{prefix}}/include'
   env:
     MESON_ARGS:
       - --prefix="{{prefix}}"
@@ -29,6 +41,7 @@ build:
       - --wrap-mode=nofallback
       - -Dintrospection=enabled
       - -Dman=false
+
 test:
   script:
     - cc test.c $ARGS -o test