Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP build: XDG_DATA_DIRS causing "Unrecognized image file format"

[Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com>]

On 9/3/19 3:38 PM, Liam R. E. Quin wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-09-03 at 15:10 -0400, Elle Stone wrote:
> > Couldn't find include 'Babl-0.1.gir' (search path: '['gir-1.0',
> > '/usr/share/gir-1.0', '/usr/share/gir-1.0', '/usr/share/gir-1.0']')
> > [223/750] Generating module_common_gpl3.c with a meson_exe.py custom
> > command.
>
> XDG_DATA_DIRS is used to find this. So, i think what matters is having
> XDG_DATA_DIRS set, but also the order of the entries within it when it
> is set. You need $prefix first i think.

Thanks! So for current (as of last week) Debian Sid and current 
babl/GEGL/GIMP-2.99 (as of this morning), XDG_DATA_DIRS really does need 
to be set.

But for Debian Testing, it seems XDG_DATA_DIRS shouldn't be set. I 
wonder what has changed between Debian Testing and Sid.

Anyone know what an XDG_DATA_DIRS actually is? Also, what is this "gir" 
thing that GEGL was looking for?

Elle