Hello,
I have found a bug when compiling gimp 1.1.8 when compiling without nls
("--disable-nls"). This is very difficult to track down.
Because nls-support is very weak in gimp-1.1.8 (many plug-ins crashed because
they expected a menu that is present only in another language: the plug-in is
translated and the menu entry in the main app isn't or vice versa) and because
my perl doesn't have nls-support, I (re-)compiled gimp with the configure
switch "--disable-nls". But when I started the gimp there are no modules
(color selectors). By examining the problem I discovered the following:
BUG: gimp doesnt't find any modules (color selectors) when compiled with
"--disable-nls"
REASON: gtk+ is compiled with nls-support and so gtk-configure returns "-lintl"
for the required libs. When libtool discovers that it "could not satisfy all
declared inter-library dependencies of module libcolorsel_..." it will create
only a static module but gimp can only load shared modules (on Linux?).
WORKAROUND: delete "-lintl" from LDADD in modules/Makefile
Uwe Koloska
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