Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (905 mails)

[Nathan Moschkin <ironywrit@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know if any of you are aware of how very difficult it is to 
build gimp-gap-2.4.0 in the openSUSE environment?  For a Debian 
environment, it didn't take too much, except compiling the latest 
libraries of GTK, Glib and Pango (etc) by hand ... and installing them 
one-by-one.  This may be what is necessary on openSUSE, but, even still, 
the libraries that ship with the OS should be enough to compile it, right? 

I mean, it seems a little harder on openSUSE...

For instance: the ./configure program will run and it will run 
completely, but there are several points during the make that it 
crashes, even after supposedly finding all of the dependencies that it 
deems necessary for the build.  Libraries are not where they should be, 
header files are not where they should be.

I've joined the comp.graphics.apps.gimp newsgroup on USENET, and the one 
person who replied simply said "it takes 5 hours of tedium, and I can't 
remember how I actually pulled it off."

Well... considering GIMP's overall popularity, do you think someone back 
there could spend 5 hours creating a gimp-gap RPM to stick onto the 11.0 
version?

Just a thought.  I would hate to think that my Windows environment could 
do something with a GTK+ based program that my Linux environment 
couldn't, without hassle.

Needing animation,

Nathaniel Moschkin
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