On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 04:41:09PM -0400, Tom Cat wrote: On 4/25/05, Carol Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) google is trying to change the way the gimp lists respond to mail, > > i think. > > > I'm confused what do you mean by item #1?
many pidgeons will die before the curmudgeons change the way they write their mail. > > 2) you are using an old linux distribution. i am sorry about that. > > it is the ultimate in cheap and lazy and you will still be able to > > get gimp to work. > > > > 3) i was successful in getting gimp to build in /usr/ and i was > > successful in getting gimp to build in /usr/local/. the reason my > > experiences are limited to this is that someone who is competent with > > computers is running my system. > > > As for #2 & #3, I have a very stable system. That is part of the > reason, I want to install the gimp in $HOME/usr not /usr or > /usr/local. It doesn't seem know anything about tiffs. I've also > tried the libtiff at ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/libs/ I had to > recompile gtk+ and set CFLAGS='-I/home/strycat/usr/include' to get > that to compile. However gimp does not give any errors but it just > seems to ignore libtiff. Is there some option I can force it to look > for libtiff? > my computer is stable. much more stable than this world i think. i brag about being lazy, so when i say something is the ultimate of lazy, it is a compliment. whoever is running your computer is making you do his work. please congratulate your system administrator for a job well done for me. my computer is stable and i can build gimp. i failed some in lazy for this to happen, however. ask your system administrator for the help. they have the permission because they have the smarts for it, right? all i did was admit that i have never done this. carol _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
