Re: [Gimp-user] Compile GIMPv2.9.1 for Debian (Wheezy/Sid)

[scl <scl gplus gmail com>]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Yesterday I built on Debian 
Wheezy, too, but not into the system directories (/usr/bin etc.), but to 
local directories under my non-privileged users $HOME.
I downloaded all dependencies (also the optional), built BABL and GEGL 
and tried building GIMP. GIMPs autogen ends with no errors. But GIMPs 
make fails in the 'cursors' directory:

Making all in cursors
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/gimpdev/Workspace/gimp/cursors'
  GEN    tool-cursors.list
  GEN    gimp-tool-cursors.h
failed to load "./cursor-bad.png": Couldn't recognize the image file 
format for file './cursor-bad.png'
make[2]: *** [gimp-tool-cursors.h] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gimpdev/Workspace/gimp/cursors'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gimpdev/Workspace/gimp'
make: *** [all] Error 2

I found out, that downloading the latest stable GLib (2.34.3) and 
GDK-Pixbuf (2.26.10) and building them from sources into my 
$INSTALL_PREFIX solved it.

However, I don't understand why this doesn't work out of the box with 
the GLIb and GDK-Pixbuf packages from the distro. A bit of research 
led me to refreshing the GDK-Pixbuf cache (file loaders.cache somewhere 
under /usr/lib). Nevertheless building the cursors directory succeeds 
only when building as root, but fails for normal users. As I saw such 
effects have been an issue for years in various GTK based products and 
with various filetypes. Does anybody have some ideas how we can have 
them working and not breaking the GIMP build out of the box?

Thanks and kind regards,

Sven