Regarding the problems with gimp on AIX 4.3.x -- I spent some time looking into the problem this weekend. As I guessed earlier in this thread, the problem is really in gtk (well, actually, AIX...). Rashmi, if you're interested in porting gimp to AIX 4.x, you should read the entire thread from gtk-devel-list from November of 1999, that starts here: http://mail.gnome.org/pipermail/gtk-devel-list/1999-November/002017.html Basically, the way gtk is built on AIX makes it pretty much unusable, because of the way AIX does shared object dependencies. The problem isn't in the gtk code, it's in the build process itself. The shared libgtk needs to be linked against libgdk because libgtk requires stuff from there. That's not happening, partially because the libtool maintainers have not been able to develop a good way of dealing with this particular problem, which appears to be unique to AIX on the power/powerpc chip. If you do a standard build of gtk on AIX you're going to get a libgtk that doesn't work. What does work is to build all of gtk, install the entire package, and then edit the gtk-1.2.8/gtk/Makefile and on the link line for libgtk, add -L/path/to/lib/directory/containing/installed/libgdk -lgdk Then rebuild libgtk (just it) and re-install it (just it), i.e. cd gtk-1.2.8/gtk make clean make make install At that point, you should have a working libgtk. None of this is original thinking on my part. I'm just reiterating what Craig Rodrigues, Joel Becker, Owen Taylor, et. al. arrived at on gtk-devel-list. After doing this and building gimp, I was able to get the user install dialog to come up, and the plug-in query seems to work fine. I get a core dump when the install dialog is getting ready to go away, apparently in g_strdup, but I'm suspicious that the problem may actually be a similar library dependency problem between libgmodule and libglib. Rashmi, if you get a similar problem you might want to try rebuilding libgmodule and linking it against libglib. It's clear that the problem is known to at least a few on the gtk-devel-list, but there's no mention of it that I could find in any of the documentation that comes with either glib or gtk+. I would be willing to write a README.AIX for inclusion in gtk+ (and possibly glib, if there is a problem there), if that's what the gtk+ developers think the best solution is for the time being. Tim -- Tim Mooney mooney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Information Technology Services (701) 231-1076 (Voice) Room 242-J1, IACC Building (701) 231-8541 (Fax) North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164
