On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 08:10:54PM +0200, Zephyr wrote: > Hello, > I wanted to compile My Very Own GIMP From CVS (TM) and play with the > code, explore it etc. As it should be just my playground, I don't want > to install it system-wide and possibly endanger my stable GIMP 2.2.10 > installed from RPM. So I made directory (my $HOME is /home/zephyr): > > /home/zephyr/Projects/gimp-cvs > > where I made CVS checkout. In this directory I created another one : > > MY-USR-LOCAL > > and ran > > ./autogen.sh --prefix=/home/zephyr/Projects/gimp-cvs/MY-USR-LOCAL > make > make install > > The configuration and compilation went hapilly, but "make install" > eventually failed: > > Making install in libgimpconfig > make[1]: Entering directory > `/home/zephyr/Projects/gimp-cvs/libgimpconfig' > make[2]: Entering directory > `/home/zephyr/Projects/gimp-cvs/libgimpconfig' > test -z "/home/zephyr/Projects/gimp-cvs/MY-USR-LOCAL/lib" || mkdir -p -- > "/home/zephyr/Projects/gimp-cvs/MY-USR-LOCAL/lib" > /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c > 'libgimpconfig-2.0.la' > '/home/zephyr/Projects/gimp-cvs/MY-USR-LOCAL/lib/libgimpconfig-2.0.la' > libtool: install: error: cannot install `libgimpconfig-2.0.la' to a > directory not ending in /usr/local/lib > make[2]: *** [install-libLTLIBRARIES] Error 1 > make[2]: Leaving directory > `/home/zephyr/Projects/gimp-cvs/libgimpconfig' > make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory > `/home/zephyr/Projects/gimp-cvs/libgimpconfig' > make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 > > The relevant error extracted from this is: > > libtool: install: error: cannot install `libgimpconfig-2.0.la' to a > directory not ending in /usr/local/lib Sounds like you first built without specifying a --prefix. You need to run "make clean" and then rebuild. -Yosh _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer