diff --git a/testing/shared-mime-info/build b/testing/shared-mime-info/build
index 247e8189..b9be7857 100755
--- a/testing/shared-mime-info/build
+++ b/testing/shared-mime-info/build
@@ -1,16 +1,51 @@
 #!/bin/sh -e
 
-for i in merge update extract perl; do
-    ln -sf intltool "intltool-fake/intltool-$i"
-done
+# Grab the package version.
+read -r version _ < "${0%/*}/version"
 
-export INTLTOOL_PERL="$PWD/intltool-fake/intltool-perl"
-export PATH="$PATH:$PWD/intltool-fake"
+mkdir -p "$1/usr/share/mime/packages" \
+         "$1/usr/share/pkgconfig" \
+         "$1/usr/bin"
 
-./configure \
-    --prefix=/usr \
-    --disable-nls \
-    --disable-update-mimedb
+# Install with only English support.
+sed -e 's/_comment/comment/g' freedesktop.org.xml.in \
+    > "$1/usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml"
 
-make
-make DESTDIR="$1" install
+# Replace markers in the file.
+sed -e 's|@prefix@|/usr|' -e "s|@VERSION@|$version|" shared-mime-info.pc.in \
+    > "$1/usr/share/pkgconfig/shared-mime-info.pc"
+
+# Define our own config.h statically.
+cat << EOF > config.h
+#define HAVE_BIND_TEXTDOMAIN_CODESET 1
+#define HAVE_FDATASYNC 1
+#define HAVE_GETTEXT 0
+#define HAVE_INTTYPES_H 1
+#define HAVE_LC_MESSAGES 1
+#define HAVE_LOCALE_H 1
+#define HAVE_MEMORY_H 1
+#define HAVE_STDINT_H 1
+#define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1
+#define HAVE_STRINGS_H 1
+#define HAVE_STRING_H 1
+#define HAVE_SYS_STAT_H 1
+#define HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H 1
+#define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1
+#define PACKAGE "shared-mime-info"
+#define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
+#define PACKAGE_NAME "shared-mime-info"
+#define PACKAGE_STRING "shared-mime-info $version"
+#define PACKAGE_TARNAME "shared-mime-info"
+#define PACKAGE_URL ""
+#define PACKAGE_VERSION "$version"
+#define STDC_HEADERS 1
+#define VERSION "$version"
+EOF
+
+# Fix config.h include.
+sed -i"" 's/<config.h>/"config.h"/' update-mime-database.c
+
+# shellcheck disable=2046
+gcc -o "$1/usr/bin/update-mime-database" \
+    $(pkg-config --libs --cflags glib-2.0 libxml-2.0) \
+    update-mime-database.c
diff --git a/testing/shared-mime-info/checksums b/testing/shared-mime-info/checksums
index 4ccd7021..b1082868 100644
--- a/testing/shared-mime-info/checksums
+++ b/testing/shared-mime-info/checksums
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
 18b2f0fe07ed0d6f81951a5fd5ece44de9c8aeb4dc5bb20d4f595f6cc6bd403e  shared-mime-info-1.12.tar.xz
-0dbea64d9a578d2448bf3a5ddf1ed97931cb3d7250eefbad2f75f0f8b5fdfc17  intltool
diff --git a/testing/shared-mime-info/depends b/testing/shared-mime-info/depends
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bb432399
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/shared-mime-info/depends
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+libxml make
+glib   make
diff --git a/testing/shared-mime-info/files/intltool b/testing/shared-mime-info/files/intltool
deleted file mode 100755
index 744d50ed..00000000
--- a/testing/shared-mime-info/files/intltool
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-die() { echo "$1" >&2 ; exit 1 ; }
-respond() { echo "$1" >&1 ; exit 0 ; }
-
-tool=$(basename $0)
-test "$1" = --version && respond "$tool (intltool 9.99.9)"
-
-case "$tool" in
-intltool-merge*) ;;
-intltool-perl*)
-test "$1" = -v && respond "This is not perl 5, version 99, subversion 9 (v5.99.9)"
-test "$1" = -e && {
-if test -n "$2" && test -z "$3" ; then
-  test "$2" = "require XML::Parser" && exit 0
-  printf "%s" "$2"|grep '^use 5\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*;$' >/dev/null && exit 0
-fi
-die "$0: unsupported usage"
-}
-test "$2" = "printf '%vd', $^V" && respond "5.99.9"
-test "$2" = "require XML::Parser" && exit 0
-printf "%s" "$2" | grep '^use [0-9].[0-9].[0-9];$'>/dev/null 2>&1 && exit 0
-die "$0: unsupported usage" ;;
-*) die "$0: requested functionality not implemented" ;;
-esac
-
-larg=
-sarg=
-while test -n "$1" ; do
-	case "$1" in
-		-x|-u|-d) shift ; continue ;;
-		-c) shift ; shift ; continue ;;
-	esac
-	sarg="$larg"
-	larg="$1"
-	shift
-done
-test -z "$sarg" && die "$0: need at least 2 args"
-test -r "$sarg" || die "$0: no read perms for $sarg"
-if printf "%s" "$sarg"|grep "\.xml\.in$" >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
-	sed -e 's,<_\([-A-Za-z0-9_]*\)>,<\1>,g' \
-	    -e 's,</_\([-A-Za-z0-9_]*\)>,</\1>,g' \
-	< "$sarg" > "$larg"
-else
-	sed 's/^_//' < "$sarg" > "$larg"
-fi
diff --git a/testing/shared-mime-info/sources b/testing/shared-mime-info/sources
index 8535fe82..d9e7c161 100644
--- a/testing/shared-mime-info/sources
+++ b/testing/shared-mime-info/sources
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/uploads/80c7f1afbcad2769f38aeb9ba6317a51/shared-mime-info-1.12.tar.xz
-files/intltool intltool-fake/