On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:42:18 +0200, Sven Neumann <sven@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 11:26 +0200, gg@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> I have installed distribution's 2.4 and cvs . I built cvs with >> --preifix=/usr/local but there is some conflict with 2.4 which refuses >> to >> run having detected the conflicting library versions. > > http://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.5.html mentions quite explicitly > that this is not going to work. /usr/local is not a separate > installation prefix. > > > Sven > Well that's probably the cause of the confusion, it does not _explicitly_ say " a separate prefix not in the system PATH" which would appear to be the key criterium. Separate presumes separatation from something that is not specified. I took it to mean separate from gimp-2.4 installation since that was subject. /usr/local is a "separate" prefix from /usr and is separate from where gimp-2.4 is installed. The problem seems to result from this separate prefix being in PATH. README says this: >> If you want to keep your older GIMP 2.x installation in parallel to GIMP 2.5, you have to choose a separate prefix which is not in your default library search path. >> This is also somewhat confusing in that it seems to refer to LD_LIBRARY_PATH. That's all probably obvious once you know but then the instructions are not for those who know. Maybe they could be 'explicit'. Now I have just let autogen.sh do it's default /opt/gimp and it's fine. The UI improvements are starting make Gimp a lot easier to work with and to discover. Excellent progress on that. Thanks Sven, Mitch, Owen.... and all those who replied. -- .*. /V\ (/ \) ( ) ^^_^^ _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
