Pretty much what I do for my McGimp builds. I will try to do a write up on how to do this in Linux which should be quite possible. On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Michael Natterer <mitch@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2015-11-17 at 11:17 +0300, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Sam Gleske wrote: >> >> > I'd rather dpkg -i or rpm -i to install a package than use a 3rd >> > party >> > app. For Windows/Mac platforms I'd say it's useful but for Linux I >> > don't >> > have much of a use for it. I had proposed a 3rd party platform to >> > be >> > distro-independent in the past (Steam) but there wasn't much >> > interest >> > around supporting that. >> >> Sam, I think I'm missing something. What's really needed is a static >> build of up-to-date version of GIMP. That's all. >> >> It doesn't have to be RPM, and it doesn't have to be DEB. It doesn't >> even have to be installable. A simple static build inside a tarball, >> provided by download.gimp.org, will work just fine. Thousands and >> thousands of Blender users will confirm. > > There is no such thing as a "simple static build" of GIMP and its > dependencies. There are gazillions of loadable modules in our > libraries, I really don't see what a static build would improve. > > We need a *relocatable* build, but it doesn't need to be static. > > - build all deps into a prefix > - enable relocation on all of them where needed/possible > - provide a launcher script > - tar up the install prefix > - ... > - profit > > --Mitch > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
