A good Compiling the GIMP from a Tarball HOW-TO seems like a
really good idea. I think this outline covers the main points,
but certainly could use some rearranging. I hereby offer it up
for tweaks and adjustments.
How to Compile GIMP from a Tarball: a tentative outline
1. Introduction
1.1 What's a Tarball?
1.2 Why do I want to compile GIMP?
2. Getting the Tarball
2.1 Where's the briar patch? (Where to put the gimp-x.y.tgz
file)
2.2 Saving the source (source directory tree)
3. Do I have the right libraries?
3.1 List of required stuff here (with how to get it).
This is starting to look recursive, no?
4. ./configure and what it means.
4.1 What's this --prefix= that they keep yammering about?
4.2 Differences between /usr and /usr/local, and why some
stuff goes
in one place and some stuff goes in the other.
5. Why a new GIMP won't play well with an old GIMP and what to
do about it.
5.1 Library version conflicts
5.2 Include paths
5.3 Library paths
5.4 ldconfig, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and other arcana
5.5 Removing an old version of GIMP - how do I do this?
6. Compiling on various systems: /* Maybe this should come
much earlier */
6.1 Linux and its flavors
6.1.1 Red Hat
6.1.2 Debian
6.1.3 Mandrake
6.1.4 Slackware
6.1.5 etc, etc, ad lib.
6.2 Solaris
6.3 HP-UX
6.4 Other Unices
6.5 Windows
6.6 Mac?
7. Problems and troubleshooting
We need to collect at least the most common problems here and
provide solutions.
Comments welcome,
--
--Jeff
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