On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 04:07:41PM -0600, Myke C. Subs wrote: > Carol Spears wrote: > > >thank you for sticking with it. > > I *require* "Add Glow" in the work that I do with The GIMP. I have no > choice but to stick with it. :) > > >try editing this script to use /opt/gnome instead of /usr/local : > >http://www.gimp.org/source/howtos/gimpenv > > OK. > > >then type "source gimpenv" before "perl Makefile.PL" > > OK. > > That didn't really seem necessary. AFAICT, it simply added > "/opt/gnome/lib/pkgconfig" to my $PKG_CONFIG_PATH, "/opt/gnome/bin" to > my $PATH, and "opt/gnome/lib" to my $LD_LIBRARY_PATH - all of which > already contained those paths as you can see below. > > >btw, you seem to have a handle on some *nix things that i don't. > > Really? Hmmm... That makes me feel good, I guess. :) > > >I still fumble around when trying to use echo. > > I really only use it whenever I want to see the contents of my $PATH > variable. > > >it is one of the problems that happens when you get things working and > >they work so well for so long. > > >again, thank you for your persistence. > > You're welcome, I suppose. Thanks for yours as well. > > Honestly, though, I don't feel, though, that I'm doing anything out of > the ordinary whenever I run into this kind of trouble with something on > my system. > > BTW, nothing improved. :) > inspite of my couple of mistyped instructions, this should have worked. i am curious if you have gimptool installed now after installing the developer package from your distribution (was it suse?).
i am trying to save face here and read the man page for pkg-config. what does "pkg-config --modversion gimp-2.0" report? carol > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Downloads/TGZ/Gimp-2.0> source gimpenv > ACLOCAL_FLAGS set to -I /opt/gnome/share/aclocal > PKG_CONFIG_PATH set to /opt/gnome/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/gnome/lib/pkgconfig > PATH set to > /opt/gnome/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/gnome/bin:/opt/kde3/bin > LD_LIBRARY_PATH set to /opt/gnome/lib:/opt/gnome/lib: > You can now build GIMP in /opt/gnome. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Downloads/TGZ/Gimp-2.0> perl Makefile.PL > checking for gimp-2.0... no > checking for gcc... cc > checking for C compiler default output... a.out > checking whether the C compiler works... yes > checking whether we are cross compiling... no > checking for suffix of executables... > checking for suffix of object files... o > checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes > checking whether cc accepts -g... yes > checking for cc option to accept ANSI C... none needed > checking for gimptool-2.0... /opt/gnome/bin/gimptool-2.0 > checking for GIMP - version >= 2.0.0... no > *** Could not run GIMP test program, checking why... > *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log > for the > *** exact error that occured. This usually means GIMP was incorrectly > installed > *** or that you have moved GIMP since it was installed. In the latter > case, you > *** may want to edit the gimptool-2.0 script: /opt/gnome/bin/gimptool-2.0 > configure: error: ** unable to find gimp, make sure it's in your path > (version 1.3.15+ required!) > > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
