Re: [Gimp-developer] xdg-app; was: WGO Transition Meeting

[Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com>]

On 11/17/2015 06:33 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Elle Stone wrote:
> > On 11/17/2015 03:17 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> > > It doesn't have to be RPM, and it doesn't have to be DEB. It doesn't
> > > even have to be installable. A simple static build inside a tarball,
> > > provided by download.gimp.org, will work just fine. Thousands and
> > > thousands of Blender users will confirm.
> >
> >
> > How do you make a simple static build inside a tarball?
>
> 1. Make a static build.
> 2. Use 'tar -jcvf' to creat a tarball from the build's directory.
>
> Is that what you were asking? ;)

How do you make a static build? The ./configure --help does mention 
static something or other, but I've never tried to make a static build.

Does this really make the resulting "whatever it is" actually run on any 
Linux distribution?

Can you provide an actual command line example for the compiling of 
babl, GEGL, and GIMP all statically linked together or whatever is 
required? Would glib and etc also need to be in the mix somehow?

I know Blender does provide a non-installed "extract and run", but it 
seems like magic.

Elle