On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 10:27:54PM +0000, Stuart via blfs-support wrote: > On 2020-01-30 16:41, Alan Feuerbacher via blfs-support wrote: > > On 1/30/2020 8:57 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 10:59:39AM +0000, Stuart via blfs-support wrote: > > > > I have built the latest BLFS Gimp-2.10.14 and I get the > > > > following issue on > > > > startup. > > > > > > > > Has anyone got any suggestions has to what may be wrong ? > > > > > > > > Thanks Stuart > > SNIP > > > > > > A rather older post on reddit suggested that an incompatible version > > > of cairo could cause this.? We have moved to a development version > > > of cairo, I forget the reason why but I suspect it might be the > > > cause.? I haven't made a new build with that version of cairo. > > > > > > So, has anyone sucessfully run current gimp with current cairo ? > > > > > > ?en > > > > Yes, in systemd development, last week I built Gimp-2.10.14 and > > Cairo-1.17.2+f93fc72c03e > > > > Alan > >
Wearing my pedant's hat, the question was "run" not "built" i.e. just because something builds doesn't necessarily mean it works. However, I'm convinced that Doug pointed to the real problem (python3 - gimp-2.10 still needs python2 and always will, gimp-3 will get rid of python2). > Alan, Thanks for that, for the record my system is a SysV development > version. > > Stuart > Stuart, I don't really understand how something using python2 could stumble onto a python3 module (unless you symlinked python or the -config version to python3), but do you have /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pycairo-1.18.2-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg (a directory, with a cairo sub-directory and some python files in that) ? ĸen -- The politics of wizardry were either very simple, and resolved by someone ceasing to breathe, or as complex as one ball of yarn in a room with three bright-eyed little kittens. - Unseen Academicals -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
