Sven Neumann wrote: > yes, it should compile. As usual the files HACKING and INSTALL mention > the build requirements. In particular these are: [snip] Thanks. Well, 6 hours later I have gimp 1.3 built! Yay! Naturally, it crashes on startup. Boo! After trying to 'ok' the second page of the gimp user installation wizard I get this: mct:~> gimp-1.3 gimp-1.3: fatal error: Segmentation fault gimp-1.3 (pid:9613): [E]xit, [H]alt, show [S]tack trace or [P]roceed: s #0 0x40550924 in g_on_error_stack_trace (prg_name=0xbffff833 "gimp-1.3") #1 0x4055083e in g_on_error_query (prg_name=0xbffff833 "gimp-1.3") #2 0x80816cd in gimp_eek (reason=0x819cea8 "fatal error", #3 0x808162e in gimp_fatal_error (fmt=0x40676e90 "Segmentation fault") #4 0x8081225 in gimp_sigfatal_handler (sig_num=11) at main.c:501 #5 0x405c7858 in sigaction () from /lib/libc.so.6 #6 0x40564428 in g_main_context_iterate (context=0x8243550, block=0, #7 0x40564635 in g_main_context_pending (context=0x0) at gmain.c:2261 #8 0x40129e8e in gtk_events_pending () at gtkmain.c:863 #9 0x808e980 in user_install_continue_callback (widget=0x825e568, #10 0x405255c6 in g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID (closure=0x825e340, #11 0x4051002e in g_closure_invoke (closure=0x825e340, return_value=0x0, #12 0x405247c0 in signal_emit_unlocked_R (node=0x825b4b0, detail=0, #13 0x40522f6b in g_signal_emit_valist (instance=0x825e568, signal_id=110, #14 0x40167e3e in gtk_signal_emit (object=0x825e568, signal_id=110) #15 0x400ac0b2 in gtk_button_clicked (button=0x825e568) at gtkbutton.c:548 #16 0x400ad259 in gtk_real_button_released (button=0x825e568) #17 0x405255c6 in g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID (closure=0x825d7e0, #18 0x4051041f in g_type_class_meta_marshal (closure=0x825d7e0, #19 0x4051002e in g_closure_invoke (closure=0x825d7e0, return_value=0x0, #20 0x40524262 in signal_emit_unlocked_R (node=0x825d818, detail=0, #21 0x40522f6b in g_signal_emit_valist (instance=0x825e568, signal_id=109, #22 0x40167e3e in gtk_signal_emit (object=0x825e568, signal_id=109) #23 0x400ac012 in gtk_button_released (button=0x825e568) at gtkbutton.c:540 #24 0x400ad07e in gtk_button_button_release (widget=0x825e568, event=0x8321500) #25 0x4012b75c in _gtk_marshal_BOOLEAN__BOXED (closure=0x82521b8, #26 0x4051041f in g_type_class_meta_marshal (closure=0x82521b8, #27 0x4051002e in g_closure_invoke (closure=0x82521b8, #28 0x40524bcd in signal_emit_unlocked_R (node=0x8252200, detail=0, #29 0x40522fd8 in g_signal_emit_valist (instance=0x825e568, signal_id=58, #30 0x40167e3e in gtk_signal_emit (object=0x825e568, signal_id=58) #31 0x401f09d2 in gtk_widget_event_internal (widget=0x825e568, event=0x8321500) #32 0x401f05f1 in gtk_widget_event (widget=0x825e568, event=0x8321500) #33 0x4012b5f0 in gtk_propagate_event (widget=0x825e568, event=0x8321500) #34 0x4012a34e in gtk_main_do_event (event=0x8321500) at gtkmain.c:1069 #35 0x402b6d80 in gdk_event_dispatch (source=0x8243520, callback=0, #36 0x4056333b in g_main_dispatch (context=0x8243550) at gmain.c:1616 #37 0x40564187 in g_main_context_dispatch (context=0x8243550) at gmain.c:2152 #38 0x40564567 in g_main_context_iterate (context=0x8243550, block=1, #39 0x40564c80 in g_main_loop_run (loop=0x8320650) at gmain.c:2453 #40 0x40129c91 in gtk_main () at gtkmain.c:794 #41 0x8080463 in app_init (gimp_argc=0, gimp_argv=0xbffff6e8) #42 0x80811d3 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffff6e4) at main.c:451 And now I'm going to go seek out some beer and friends to commiserate with... --Adam -- Adam D. Moss . ,,^^ adam@xxxxxxxx http://www.foxbox.org/ co:3 But not us (no never) no not us (no never) We are far too young and clever