(Again CC:ing to gimpwin-dev and gimp-developer. In general discussion like this should be on gimpwin-dev, and in the future, if gimpwin-dev is decommissioned, on gimp-developer.) Dominik Stadler writes: > if I can get this to compile successfully I will put up a webpage > that describes how to build GIMP on Windows using MinGW, so this > might easy some of the load on you. Good... > When I run automake from cygwin, I get lines with > > @AMDEP_TRUE@DEP_FILES = ./$(DEPDIR)/gimp.Plo \ > @AMDEP_TRUE@ ./$(DEPDIR)/gimpbrushes_pdb.Plo \ > in the generated Makefiles. The items with @ produce errors > during running make. I don't know exactly what causes this, but hopefully it goes away if you make sure you use automake 1.4(-p6). Unfortunately Cygwin (last time I looked) didn't provide an "automake-1.4" command but instead they have a wrapper script "automake" that runs either automake 1.7 or automake 1.4 (from /usr/autotool/devel/bin or /usr/autotool/stable/bin, respectively) depending on what version it thinks configure.in wants. As it says: > This is automake-wrapper, which will hand off execution > to one of the two real versions listed above, depending > on the contents of configure.in/configure.ac. Since the > wrapper was called from within a directory in which those > files are not found, this generic 'version' message is > displayed. Myself, I built automake-1.4-p6 and installed it so that it is found in PATH before Cygwin's one, to avoid this kind of problems. --tml
