Re: [Gimp-developer] concurrent 2.4 and 2.5
Hi, On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 10:36 -0400, Liam R E Quin wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 08:42 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: > > > http://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.5.html mentions quite explicitly > > that this is not going to work. /usr/local is not a separate > > installation prefix. > > I use a shell script wrapper to start GIMP that sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH > and PATH, and it has always worked fine for me in /usr/local. Sure, I also do have gimp-2.5 installed in /usr/local and gimp-2.4 in /usr. Depending on how your system is set up, this may work, or not. But since it is way too difficult and confusing to explain all the details, the safe advice is to use a completely different prefix. Sven ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] concurrent 2.4 and 2.5
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 08:42 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: > http://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.5.html mentions quite explicitly > that this is not going to work. /usr/local is not a separate > installation prefix. I use a shell script wrapper to start GIMP that sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PATH, and it has always worked fine for me in /usr/local. Except I did get in a mess with testing stuff once, when I forgot and ran stuff from gdb or something, and complained that the plugins werent' working :-) But you're right, it won't just work if you run /usr/local/bin/gimp directly and have /usr/bin/gimp installed too. I wonder if it would be worth having configure generate a warning at the end? /usr/local was the default prefix for me at least. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org www.advogato.org ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] concurrent 2.4 and 2.5
Hi, On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 14:29 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > /usr/local is a "separate" prefix from /usr and is separate from where > gimp-2.4 is installed. No, /usr/local is in the /usr prefix. Of course we could go to more length in the release notes, but we tried to keep it concise. As fas as I can see this has worked nicely over the last years. Most readers seem to understand what the release notes are trying to tell them and follow the example given there. Sven ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] concurrent 2.4 and 2.5
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:42:18 +0200, Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 11:26 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I have installed distribution's 2.4 and cvs . I built cvs with >> --preifix=/usr/local but there is some conflict with 2.4 which refuses >> to >> run having detected the conflicting library versions. > > http://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.5.html mentions quite explicitly > that this is not going to work. /usr/local is not a separate > installation prefix. > > > Sven > Well that's probably the cause of the confusion, it does not _explicitly_ say " a separate prefix not in the system PATH" which would appear to be the key criterium. Separate presumes separatation from something that is not specified. I took it to mean separate from gimp-2.4 installation since that was subject. /usr/local is a "separate" prefix from /usr and is separate from where gimp-2.4 is installed. The problem seems to result from this separate prefix being in PATH. README says this: >> If you want to keep your older GIMP 2.x installation in parallel to GIMP 2.5, you have to choose a separate prefix which is not in your default library search path. >> This is also somewhat confusing in that it seems to refer to LD_LIBRARY_PATH. That's all probably obvious once you know but then the instructions are not for those who know. Maybe they could be 'explicit'. Now I have just let autogen.sh do it's default /opt/gimp and it's fine. The UI improvements are starting make Gimp a lot easier to work with and to discover. Excellent progress on that. Thanks Sven, Mitch, Owen and all those who replied. -- .*. /V\ (/ \) ( ) ^^_^^ ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] concurrent 2.4 and 2.5
On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 11:26 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed distribution's 2.4 and cvs . I built cvs with > --preifix=/usr/local but there is some conflict with 2.4 which refuses to > run having detected the conflicting library versions. Here the beginning > of ldd for 2.4 /usr/local is *not* a separate prefix, you can't have libraries there that are binary compatible with stuff in /usr. Use a truly separate prefix like ~/foo or /opt/foo ciao, --mitch ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
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