Re: [Gimp-developer] building GIMP from git

[Julien Nabet <serval2412 yahoo fr>]

On 07/10/2015 18:03, Olivier wrote:
> I downloaded GEGL and BABL from the links on page http://www.gimp.org/,
> i.e. http://gegl.org/ and http://gegl.org/babl/. I compiled and installed
> them using the normal procedure (sudo ./configure && make && make install).
>
> Thus GEGL and BABL are not built from git, and they are installed in the
> system directories, not under a special prefix. Your articles seem to
> suggest that I should have chosen the second solution, but
> http://www.gimp.org/source/howtos/gimp-git-build.html does not suggest that.
>
> Since GEGL is installed in only one place, i.e. /usr/local/lib/, I don't
> understand where GIMP could find it in a wrong place.
Hello,

I had some surprises when building gimp (with gegl/babl from git too).
First I tried to use babl and gegl provided by Debian testing, but 
they're not recent enough.
Then I uninstalled Debian packages and install the babl/gegl builds from 
root. I don't remember if it succeeded but anyway, it wasn't ok for Gimp.
Hopefully, this link helped me a lot:
http://wiki.gimp.org/wiki/Hacking:Building/Linux

It seems building process needs some "black magic" to make it easier :-)

Julien