if you just want to test some of the new features - use this script : http://www.davidrevoy.com/article94/gimp-razor-script-for-cutting-edge-gimp this will download and build all required libraries (gegl /babl) - also will buiild GIMP for you [ 2.9.x ] If you wanna build GIMP yourself to be comfortable with ..you can still take a look to that script 2013/9/28 Román <roman@xxxxxxxxxx> > Hi everyone, > > I have been trying to build gimp from git but I cannot because old > pkg-config, babl, gegl, gtk+ and other packages. So I tried to compile > all these packages from source. So, my question is: what do developers > do? do you build all gimp dependecies from source? do you use debian > unstable or something like that to get latest packeges? > > I would like to learn by making changes in gimp and in the future to help. > > Regards. > Román! > _______________________________________________ > gimp-developer-list mailing list > List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx > List membership: > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list > -- Nemes Ioan Sorin _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list