i am attempting to build gimp from cvs. updating and typing "make" failed with the following error message: ./configure: line 33395: syntax error near unexpected token `1.0' ./configure: line 33395: `GTK_DOC_CHECK(1.0)' make: *** [config.status] Error 2 the next step for me (usually) is to reconfigure. i always send it a few extra parameters, so i "./autogen.sh --help". this failed with this message: checking for gtkdocize ... You must have gtk-doc installed to compile The GIMP. Install the appropriate package for your distribution, or get the source tarball at http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gtk-doc/ so i went to the mentioned web site and snarfed the tarball. to my dismay, this is what i read about the new dependencies: Requirements ============ Perl v5 - the main scripts are in Perl. http://www.perl.com/ DocBook SGML DTD v3.0 or DocBook XML DTD v4.1.2 - the DocBook DTDs. http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ Jade v1.1 or OpenJade 1.3.1 for SGML. http://www.jclark.com/jade http://sourceforge.net/projects/openjade libxslt & libxml2 2.3.6 for XML. http://xmlsoft.org/ DocBook DSSSL Stylesheets (I've got 1.40, but v1.19+ may be OK) DocBook XSL Stylesheets is it a real fact that i need jade to build gimp or perhaps i am doing something wrong? is it only specific to cvs builds and if so is it a temporary thing? does it make sense that i need jade to work on images with a piece of free software that is not as free as jade or open jade? i would like to build gimp without this additional (and un-needed by me) software. carol
