Hi, On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 03:59:17AM +0100, Major A wrote: > When I replied to the previous email, I thought of the trouble I had > myself when I tried to build SANE myself on a machine where GIMP was > installed in /usr/local/gimp. The sane-frontends configure script only > looks for header files but does not allow the specification of a > directory to look in, or at least it isn't straight-forward.
configure uses the prepocessor, so the standard include directories are checked. If it's a default install in /usr/local/include, it should be found. > My suggestion is therefore to use gimp-config in the configure script, > this should be quite robust (GIMP came with it even in 1.0, I > think). Even if the headers and libraries haven't got any symlinks in > standard places, gimp-config is usually linked to /usr/local/bin. It > will also deal with GTK as a bonus. Patches are welcome. We should also make sure that gtk version is <=1.2.something, because gtk 2.0 won't work. What about neewer gimp versions? Bye, Henning
