Re: [Gimp-developer] Issue building Gimp from GIT

[Ell <ell_se yahoo com>]

On July 4, 2019 4:59:10 AM GMT+02:00, "Steven P. Ulrick via gimp-developer-list" <gimp-developer-list gnome 
org> wrote:
> Hello, Everyone
>
> I am running Fedora 30 and attempting to build, install & eventually
> run 
> GIMP from GIT. It builds & installs without error. But when I attempt
> to 
> run it I get the following:
>
> [steve@afolkey2 bin]$ ./gimp-2.99
> ./gimp-2.99: error while loading shared libraries: libjson-c.so.2: 
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> Obviously the error itself makes perfect sense. Fedora 30 has 
> libjson-c.so.4, not libjson-c.so.2
>
> So the question is, why does GIMP compile and install with 
> libjson-c.so.2 not installed, but it won't run. I would assume that if
> a 
> file that GIMP requires if it is not going to crash is not present,
> that 
> GIMP would not compile. Also, what can I do to get this to work.

One of GIMP's dependencies was built against an older version of json-c.  Probably libmypaint, but you can 
find out using lddtree.  If you've built that dependency yourself as well (which is likely, otherwise we'd be 
hearing a lot more about it :) you need to rebuild it.

--
Ell