i just grabbed a fresh checkout of gimp and would like to thank everyone involved with this: 2005-01-20 Sven Neumann <sven@xxxxxxxx> * autogen.sh: applied (modified) patch from Raphaƫl Quinet that allows to build GIMP from CVS without having gtk-doc installed. If you need to do this, pass --disable-gtk-doc to autogen.sh. thank you very very much :) there is much more in the Changelog, and everyone there deserves thanks as well; there was hardly a file that was not touched! this one entry has been singled out because it is really important for those of us who are testing cvs gimp by using it. thank you everyone! carol