On 2002-06-09 at 1304.03 +0200, Sven Neumann typed this mail: > Hi, > > Henning Makholm <henning@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Scripsit Akkana <akkana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > http://shallowsky.com/gimpbuild.html > > > > Cool. You say on that page: > > > > | for some reason, CVS builds have more dependencies than tarball builds. > > > > At least one such reason (I'm not sure whether it's the only one) is > > that the CVS repository does not include Makefile.in files, the > > configure script and its various helper files (config.in and friends). > > these extra dependencies are described in the file HACKING. > > I'd like to mention that Carol has made up a pretty complete > Compiling-The-GIMP-from-CVS-Howto. Perhaps she wants to post the URL > again to avoid more people duplicating her efforts. > bex wrote it .... url is http://carol.gimp.org/gimp/howtos/cvs/cvs.html it was written for 1.2 but the cvs info is good for both and the flag setting is proper for both also. Akkanas document seems to be a great snapshot of what is needed to build this gimp right now. actually, getting HEAD from cvs is less complicated than getting a branch ... carol
