On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 egger@xxxxxxx wrote: > We build the gimp-perl plugin from the CPAN sources and disable it in > the GIMP distribution because it makes too much problems there especially > on recent SPARCs, alphas and ia64. We don't use the BuildRoot features > of RPM however because it has some issues with Perl which Marco also > found.... :) Ok, you're right, but why everything worked fine till gimp 1.1.24 (the last RPM I've built through the "standard" gimp.spec)? I don't think that dropping the RPM support or a clean and easy way for RPMming the GIMP is a good choice (none would use the "prefix" for a normal installation except the ones who would build a binary rpm). ;) Happy GIMPing, Marco -- //\/\ Marco (LM) Lamberto e-mail: nOsPaMz-lm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (remove 'nOsPaMz-') The Sunny Spot - http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/1474/