Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP Building Instructions

[Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net>]

On Sun, 2021-08-01 at 19:05 +0200, programmer_ceds wrote:
> I could be mistaken but I think that there are two errors on the
> Hacking:Building page at:
>
> https://wiki.gimp.org/wiki/Hacking:Building
>
> Firstly in section 3 regarding setting environment variables is the
> line:
>
> export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I $INSTALL_PREFIX/share/aclocal
> $ACLOCAL_FLAGS"

This doesn't actuall yseem to be used. I've never set it myself.


> But INSTALL_PREFIX isn't defined - I assume that this should read:
>
> export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I $GIMP_PREFIX/share/aclocal $ACLOCAL_FLAGS"
I'm not certain - i'd try skipping it.

Before you run configure (when it would be used) you haven't installed
anything there.


> instruction is to change to the directory where gegl was unpacked -
> should this
> not be the directory where GIMP was unpacked?

Yes.

I've updated the page

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