Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.9 and Linux Mint

[Thorsten Stettin <thorsten stettin gmail com>]

Am 23.06.2015 um 05:19 schrieb Alexander Rabtchevich:
> Jehan Pagès wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 9:48 PM, Alexander Rabtchevich
> > <alexander v rabtchevich gmx net> wrote:
> > > Hello
> > >
> > > I've just installed brand new Mint 17.2 Mate rc. It has GdkPixbuf
> > > version
> > > 2.30.7 and GIMP requires 2.30.8. Does it mean current development
> > > version of
> > > GIMP will not be available in Linux Mint?
> > I'm not sure what you are asking for. Since this is a development
> > version, it requires slightly late version of some libraries, and thus
> > sometimes not available on some distributions. It does not mean you
> > can't compile the dev version of GIMP, only that you may have to
> > compile some of the dependencies.
> > I am myself a GIMP dev, and I currently use Linux Mint (Linux Mint 17
> > Cinnamon 64-bit). So there are no problems: you can build GIMP there.
> Linux Mint 17.2 is going to be released in a week or two. Its Mate
> edition will not meet current GIMP requirements, at least the RC does
> not. Does Cinnamon edition contain enough version of GdkPixbuf from
> the box?
>
> With respect,
> Alexander Rabtchevich
I hope this helps:

Am 16.04.2015 um 16:13 schrieb Mukund Sivaraman:

> Hi Thorsten
>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 03:53:06PM +0200, Thorsten Stettin wrote:
> > I've tried to build Gimp 2.9.1 commit
> > c72bc50e5d1f50eb0ee0a13dbc5d6d9a60dc6e78 on Ubuntu 14.04.
> > Is GdkPixbuf >= 2.30.8 really essential? I'm heading for disaster.
> > So much packages depends on GdkPixbuf <= 2.30.7.
> > It will be a dependency nightmare. 
> This was probably bumped for gdk_pixbuf_new_from_resource(). You should
> be able to lower it to 2.30.7 and use it. Note that you'll have to make
> this change in configure.ac and app/sanity.c.
>
>               Mukund
Here is my patch:

http://pastebin.com/2pn0wW1c

It works!

I use it in conjuction with gimp-2.9.1 builds at 
https://launchpad.net/~otto-kesselgulasch/+archive/ubuntu/gimp-edge

Cheers
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