Hi, Olivier Ripoll <olivier.ripoll@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Compared to the 1.3.13, I had to install many additional dev > packages to be able to compile this version, mainly gnome ones, so I > can understand this. There is no additional dependency compared to 1.3.13. OK, we require pango-1.2 now but you should be using that with gtk+-2.2 anyway. Of course the new MNG plug-in introduces new dependencies but you should be able to build without it. configure is supposed to skip the build of the MNG plug-in if libmng is not available. If that didn't work for you, please file a bug-report with detailed configure output. > But why did I have to install sendmail to be > able to compile gimp? I mean sendmail is a security issue, and I > don't even have a modem on my computer (so for me sendmail is not a > security issue, but for many peopl it should be). Couldn't there be > a flag like --disable-sendmail ? Is sendmail really needed for gimp, > or is it only during development stage and will dissapear when 1.4 > is out? <troll>Why not postfix or qmail instead?</troll> You don't have to install sendmail to compile GIMP. Sendmail is being used by the mail plug-in and the configure check for sendmail dates back to somewhen before GIMP version 1.0. I agree that the plug-in is useless (it's called the GIMP Useless Mail Plug-in after all). Are you saying that GIMP didn't build without sendmail being available? That would be a bug. On the other hand, sendmail is available almost everywhere since all other MTAs that I know of install a sendmail binary for compatibility. > Also, there was no test for the presence of lcms headers (little > colour management system) in the configure step, while it happened > to be needed during make (for the mng plugin I think). AFAIK, the MNG plug-in doesn't use the headers directly and it should be the job of the MNG library to assure that its headers can safely be included. Salut, Sven
