Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP can't find libmypaint-gegl

[Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org>]

On Tue, 2015-12-22 at 20:35 -0500, Elle Stone wrote:
> On 12/22/2015 06:46 PM, Eneko Castresana wrote:
> > Sorry, I meant to say "in case you didn't install to the standard
> > directories"; that needs to be done so that the shared libraries
> > can be
> > found in non-standard dirs.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Eneko
> >
> > 2015-12-23 0:38 GMT+01:00 Eneko Castresana<ecv80vit gmail com>:
> >
> > > > Hello Ellen,
> > > >
> > > > I had exactly this problem today, and as a newcomer found it
> > > > all extremely
> > > > frustrating, but I manged to figure it out at last (you got way
> > > > further
> > > > than me by the beginning, BTW):
> > > >
> > > > add "use_sharedlib=yes" to scons
> > > >
> > > > And just in case you installed to /usr/local, remember to
> > > > update
> > > > /etc/ld.so.conf and use ldconfig
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Eneko
>
> Hi Eneko, and thanks! for responding.
>
> I build GIMP from git in a prefix to avoid interfering with GIMP 2.8 
> installed from Gentoo portage, and so I'm not sure that modifying 
> /etc/ld.so.conf is the right thing to do.
>
> I have three different installations of GIMP in three different 
> prefixes. So I want libmypaint in prefix1 to link with GEGL in
> prefix1, 
> and GIMP in prefix1 to look for libmypaint-gegl also and only in 
> prefix1, and so forth for the other two prefixes.
>
> Here's how I set up the first prefix:
>
> PREFIX=$HOME/data/gimp/gimpdefault/install
> export PATH=$PREFIX/bin:$PATH
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PREFIX/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> export XDG_DATA_DIRS=$PREFIX/share:$XDG_DATA_DIRS
> export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I $PREFIX/share/aclocal"
> export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
> export GIO_EXTRA_MODULES=/usr/lib/gio/modules
> export SRC_DIR=$HOME/data/gimp/gimpdefault/build
>
> Here's the command to build libmypaint:
>
> scons prefix=$HOME/data/gimp/gimpdefault/install use_sharedlib=yes 
> enable_gegl=true

Do you also pass prefix=foo when installing it?

scons prefix=foo install

--Mitch