In fact, I also built glib from git, thus maybe GIO_EXTRA_MODULES was also needed. Anyway, I used it and everything is OK now. Olivier Lecarme 2015-10-07 21:23 GMT+02:00 Elle Stone <ellestone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On 10/07/2015 12:54 PM, Olivier wrote: > >> Finally I succedded in installing GIMP, by fetching gegl, babl, >> gdk-pixbuf, and gimp itself from git, and configuring and installing >> them all under the same prefix. Under Ubuntu 15.04, the GIO extra >> modules are located in usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules. >> >> Thus I used Martin Nordholts' explanation in >> http://www.gimp.org/source/howtos/gimp-git-build.html, but I added gegl, >> babl, and gdk-pixbuf tothe packages to be fetched from git, compiled and >> installed, and I added GIO_EXTRA_MODULES to the exported variables, >> although I'm not sure that is needed. >> >> Thanks to all! >> >> Olivier Lecarme >> > > Based on comments in https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gegl-git/, it > does look like maybe the original problem was that GIMP was finding a > too-outdated version of GEGL. > > I never needed to export GIO_EXTRA_MODULES until I tried to run GIMP 2.8 > installed from the Gentoo package manager alongside babl/GEGL/GIMP from git > installed in a prefix. But here's the reference, fwiw: > > > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2015-February/msg00042.html > > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2015-February/msg00051.html > > Looking at what Mitch said, it seems exporting GIO_EXTRA_MODULES is only > be needed if glib is also built in the prefix. So sorry for the noise! if > you didn't also build glib in the prefix. > > For the next person trying to build GIMP from git who might stumble over > this thread, a few other "why it doesn't work and what to do" are > documented here: > > http://wiki.gimp.org/wiki/Hacking:Problems_and_solutions > > -- Olivier Lecarme _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
