On 2002-01-20 at 1341.43 +0100, Sven Neumann typed this mail: > Hi, > > this is not true. I tried to get some magic into acinclude.m4 to > remove the need to have glib-1.3 and pkg-config installed to compile > gimp-1.2 from CVS. However I haven't found a good solution so > far. This means that pkg.m4 and glib-gettext.m4 are still needed and > neither the file HACKING nor the tutorial mention this in enough > detail. I'll probably give it another try and if I fail again, I'll > update HACKING accordingly. > as soon as you update HACKING, i will clear this up in the how to. should i "cvs up" nightly to check, or would weekly be sufficient? > A few points about the tutorial: > > - I'm missing the names of the authors and an email address for > further questions, suggestions, etc. i put everyone i remember there, in alphabetical order. if i left someone out, i am sorry. also, there is room for more. > - There's a typo in explanation of .cvsrc: "The the maintainers ..." very clever of you to find the "the GIMP" there, as both bex and i missed it. thank you :) > - You might want to add the -p flag to the diff commands. It adds > the name of the changed function to the generated diff. IMO this > helps a lot when reading diffs. However this is not really needed > when compiling GIMP. > added. thank you. thanks for the help. carol
