I followed the instruction in the following links to install jhbuild and still have the same problem.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Newcomers/BuildGnome
https://wiki.gnome.org/HowDoI/Jhbuild

I am unable to build devhelp by jhbuild, I need devhelp since gnome-builder depends on it. I successfully build gnome-photos and gnome-calendar without problem.

I reported the problem for devhelp (bug 774069) but the problem seems not related to their module.

PC info:
Linux localhost.localdomain 4.8.6-201.fc24.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Nov 3 14:38:57 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


*** Configuring devhelp *** [36/36]
/home/mohhso/jhbuild/checkout/devhelp/autogen.sh --prefix /home/mohhso/jhbuild/install --disable-Werror  --disable-static --disable-gtk-doc 
/home/mohhso/jhbuild/install/bin/gnome-autogen.sh
fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /home)
Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set).
gtkdocize: neither configure.ac nor configure.in exist
*** Error during phase configure of devhelp: ########## Error running /home/mohhso/jhbuild/checkout/devhelp/autogen.sh --prefix /home/mohhso/jhbuild/install --disable-Werror  --disable-static --disable-gtk-doc  *** [36/36]

  [1] Rerun phase configure
  [2] Ignore error and continue to build
  [3] Give up on module
  [4] Start shell
  [5] Reload configuration
  [6] Go to phase "wipe directory and start over"
  [7] Go to phase "clean"
  [8] Go to phase "distclean"
choice: