Re: [Gimp-developer] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.10.0-RC2 released

[Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop ntlworld com>]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 01:26:19AM +0200, Michael Natterer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We just released the second release candidate on the way
> to the final GIMP 2.10.0 release.
>
> This is (still!) an unstable development release and might
> crash or do whatever. If you try it for work, please save
> your images more often.
I had hoped to install this in a fresh all-from-source LFS/BLFS
build (RC1 on a different machine worked, but a separate plugin
rebooted the machine, which might well be a Ryzen problem) because I
know that my own script-fu script needs to be updated.  But to my
surprise it failed to build because pygtk-2.24.0 had no-longer
installed its headers.

So, my general view is that python is even more of a PITA that I had
assumed (pygtk-2.24.0 installed its headers in previous builds, and
for this build my pygtk script and my toolchain had not changed),
but does anybody have any suggestions on this ?

Or maybe I should just give up, or else give up the snake (and swear
volubly at anyone who suggests that using python for scripts is
easier ;)

Meanwhile, congratulations to the developers, but I'm sorry that
I can't build/use this.

ĸen
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