Hi, RaphaXl Quinet <quinet@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I have just tried compiling gimp-1.2.4-pre1 on Solaris, and I had some > problems because of the new dependency on gimp-print (which was part of > the GIMP package until 1.2.3). > > I tried to see that from the point of view of a novice user who does > not know exactly what is provided by each package, instead of taking > the point of view of a GIMP developer who knows the history of both > packages. And at first sight, it looks like there is a circular > dependency: in order to build the GIMP, you need libgimpprint, which > is part of the gimp-print package (and you need a version >= 4.2.0). > But in order to build gimp-print, you need the GIMP! I was told that latest versions of gimp-print don't build the gimp plug-in by default and thus do not need depend on gimp to be installed. Salut, Sven
