All, I am trying to compile v1.1.24 of the GIMP, and I am getting many problems -- as follows : (1) I downloaded the file gimp-1.1.24.tar.gz; (2) Created a temp directory; (3) Copied the abovementioned tar.gz file into the temp directory; (4) In the temp directory, I performed 'gunzip gimp-1.1.24.tar.gz'; (5) I then expanded the resulting tar file using 'tar gimp-1.1.24.tar'. First problem - I was flooded with errors along the lines "Cannot chown to uid 39902 gid 39902: Operation not permitted". Obviously a permissions problem. What makes this more confusing is that I am logged on as root (I always log on as root - a bit naughty maybe :)). (6) In spite of these messages, a new folder gimp-1.1.24 was created, containing a whole lot of files - including a file called configure. So I tried "configure" and "make", and got more error messages as follows : [root@localhost gimp-1.1.24]# ./configure ./configure: re: command not found ./configure: line 502: syntax error near unexpected token `|s' ./configure: line 502: `|sed 's%/[^/][^/]*$%%'`' [root@localhost gimp-1.1.24]# make make: *** No targets. Stop. [root@localhost gimp-1.1.24]# If this helps ... I am on Linux Mandrake v7, and have recently rebuilt this system using the "customized" and "developers" options (hence, in theory, I should have all of the associated development software that I need). Can anyone suggest what is going on here ? regards, Andrew J Fortune
