Re: [Gimp-developer] building GIMP from git

[Olivier <olecarme gmail com>]

In fact, I also built glib from git, thus maybe GIO_EXTRA_MODULES was also
needed. Anyway, I used it and everything is OK now.

Olivier Lecarme

2015-10-07 21:23 GMT+02:00 Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com>:

> On 10/07/2015 12:54 PM, Olivier wrote:
>
> > ​Finally I succedded in installing ​GIMP,  by fetching gegl, babl,
> > gdk-pixbuf, and gimp itself from git, and configuring and installing
> > them all under the same prefix. Under Ubuntu 15.04, the GIO extra
> > modules are located in usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules.
> >
> > Thus I used Martin Nordholts' explanation in
> > http://www.gimp.org/source/howtos/gimp-git-build.html, but I added gegl,
> > babl, and gdk-pixbuf tothe packages to be fetched from git, compiled and
> > installed, and I added GIO_EXTRA_MODULES  to the exported variables,
> > although I'm not sure that is needed.
> >
> > Thanks to all!
> >
> > Olivier Lecarme
>
> Based on comments in https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gegl-git/, it
> does look like maybe the original problem was that GIMP was finding a
> too-outdated version of GEGL.
>
> I never needed to export GIO_EXTRA_MODULES until I tried to run GIMP 2.8
> installed from the Gentoo package manager alongside babl/GEGL/GIMP from git
> installed in a prefix. But here's the reference, fwiw:
>
>
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2015-February/msg00042.html
>
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2015-February/msg00051.html
>
> Looking at what Mitch said, it seems exporting GIO_EXTRA_MODULES is only
> be needed if glib is also built in the prefix. So sorry for the noise! if
> you didn't also build glib in the prefix.
>
> For the next person trying to build GIMP from git who might stumble over
> this thread, a few other "why it doesn't work and what to do" are
> documented here:
>
> http://wiki.gimp.org/wiki/Hacking:Problems_and_solutions


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Olivier Lecarme