On Wednesday 30 July 2003 10:12, Christoph Haller wrote: >I've compiled gimp-1.2.5 with success using the configure option >--prefix=$HOME/foo >However, when I try to start I face a rather bizarre message > For a proper GIMP installation, a subdiretcory named > $HOME/~/foo needs to be created. > >This appeared wrong to me, but out of curiosity I did the favor >and created a directory called ~ (tilde) in $HOME. >GIMP started, but as I expected complained about a missing directory >$HOME/$HOME/foo > >The other way around, creating a $HOME/$HOME/foo >in the first place, doesn't work either. > >I'm afraid I'm stuck in a vicious circle. >Does anybody know, where my initial mistake may be. > >Regards, Christoph
Thats because AIUI, the tilde is a universal symbol representing the *users* home dir, as in if I was logged in as gene, then it would be string subbed by /home/gene when encountered in a script. So ~/foo would be /home/gene/foo in that case. -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
