Hi, sorry for my late replay. Martin Nordholts wrote: > Without doubt we shall not steal because just as you say that would > require us to update the plug-in whenever the lib updates. > > Instead, your patch should add a test for libXcursor to configure.in, in > the same manner as we test for a lot of other optional libs. Then in the > Makefile.am you would test if libXcursor was found, and only build if it > was found. I did not think of not building! > > Some keywords to google for: > Autoconf, Automake > > Some files to look in: > http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gimp/trunk/configure.in?view=markup > And the various Makefile.am:s under the plug-ins directory. I appreciate your kindly teaching. It was well worth to ask here. - tks _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer