A good Compiling the GIMP from a Tarball HOW-TO seems like a really good idea. I think this outline covers the main points, but certainly could use some rearranging. I hereby offer it up for tweaks and adjustments. How to Compile GIMP from a Tarball: a tentative outline 1. Introduction 1.1 What's a Tarball? 1.2 Why do I want to compile GIMP? 2. Getting the Tarball 2.1 Where's the briar patch? (Where to put the gimp-x.y.tgz file) 2.2 Saving the source (source directory tree) 3. Do I have the right libraries? 3.1 List of required stuff here (with how to get it). This is starting to look recursive, no? 4. ./configure and what it means. 4.1 What's this --prefix= that they keep yammering about? 4.2 Differences between /usr and /usr/local, and why some stuff goes in one place and some stuff goes in the other. 5. Why a new GIMP won't play well with an old GIMP and what to do about it. 5.1 Library version conflicts 5.2 Include paths 5.3 Library paths 5.4 ldconfig, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and other arcana 5.5 Removing an old version of GIMP - how do I do this? 6. Compiling on various systems: /* Maybe this should come much earlier */ 6.1 Linux and its flavors 6.1.1 Red Hat 6.1.2 Debian 6.1.3 Mandrake 6.1.4 Slackware 6.1.5 etc, etc, ad lib. 6.2 Solaris 6.3 HP-UX 6.4 Other Unices 6.5 Windows 6.6 Mac? 7. Problems and troubleshooting We need to collect at least the most common problems here and provide solutions. Comments welcome, -- --Jeff Jeff Trefftzs <trefftzs@xxxxxxxx> http://www.tcsn.net/trefftzs Home Page http://gug.sunsite.dk/gallery.php?artist=68 Gimp Gallery http://trefftzs.topcities.com/home.html Photo galleries
