Geoffrey Lee wrote:
>
> > I went to rebuild the hackgimp RPM because it doesn't include the perl
> > stuff in binary form and noticed your comments in the spec file. The
>
> they were my comments. however: i remember building on a box with gimp
> installed (stable) and it didn't bail out
>
> > reason the perl stuff keeps bombing out is the shared libraries in the
> > perl autoload directory link themselves to the older
> Gimp libraries
> > rather than the new ones being built. The simple solution to the problem
> > is to remove the older version of Gimp first, rebuild, then install.
>
> you have verified this ?
Not directly with the RPM file. I first encountered the issue with a
direct build of Gimp and sorted it out by removing all of the installed
files, including the perl ones, and then rebuilding.
I'm going to try the RPM today or tomorrow. I'm on the road with work
today, so I may not get to it right away.
John
