Re: ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.5.4 development release

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Liam R E Quin wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 20:09 -0700, bgw wrote:
>
>   
>> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
>> checking for BABL... configure: error: Package requirements (babl >= 
>> 0.0.22) were not met:
>>
>> No package 'babl' found
>>
>> Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
>> installed software in a non-standard prefix.
>> </quote>
>>
>> Given the standard library structure above, why doesn't gegl autogen 
>> find babl?
>>     
>
> You need to do
>
> export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/
>
> You also need:
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
>
> You will also need to do this when running your copy of gimp.
> To remind me, I have a shell script, lgimp, that runs the local
> gimp with:
>
> #! /bin/sh
>
> # export MALLOC_CHECK_=1 
> GEGL_NO_NODE_CACHES=1 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib BABL_ERROR=0.0
> exec /usr/local/bin/gimp-2.5 "$@"
>
> you probably don't need the GEGL_NO_NODE_CACHES or BABL_ERROR settings,
> though, so you could use,
>
> #! /bin/sh
>
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib exec /usr/local/bin/gimp-2.5 "$@"
>
>
> A simpler alternative is to put gimp in a place like $HOME/gimp where
> it won't conflict with any installed version of gimp.
>
> Liam
>
>   
Thank you, Liam. Everything works.

I'm still unsure why the "non-standard prefix" doesn't include 
/usr/local, however.
Standards have their highest value when they are properly followed, AFAIAC.
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