Hi Owen, thanks for your email. On Sun, 1 Mar 2020 00:53:43 +0100 Owen <owen.cook@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Sat, 29 Feb 2020 06:15:40 -0000 > > > "Ed" <ej_zg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > I'd suggest setting up Travis and using CI with your project repo to > > > > ensure people can start from a clean version of at least Ubuntu with a > > > > fair chance it will work. The various packages and versions in the > > > > Travis config would provide a great guide on dependencies. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks for the suggestion, Ed! I shall try that. > > > > > > > This was now implemented: https://travis-ci.org/shlomif/App-gimpgitbuild/ - > > thanks. It took me half a day, and I ended up skipping the build of gimp > > git master itself (due to the fact it required some newer deps). It > > inspired a feature in gimpgitbuild 0.8.0 . > > > > > Thanks again and it built right to the end of gimp. But; > > I suspect the following is relevant only to Ubuntu-19.10; > > To get past libmypaint build not finding automake, I needed to; > > a. Remove the symbolic links /etc/alternatives/automake and > /etc/alternatives/aclocal (the /etc/alternatves linked back to the 1.16 > versions in /usr/bin b. Copy automake-1.16 and aclocal-1.16 to 1.13 version > c. link the 1.13 versions to automake and aclocal > > There is probably an easier way to do this. However "it worked" > > Gimp then built to "Success" but running the app, > > # apps/graphics/gimp-devel/bin/gimp-2.99: error while loading shared > libraries: libgimpbase-3.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file > or directory > > Vaguely remember having to set up some environment variable and will later > try; > > # export > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/owen/apps/graphics/gimp-devel/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH > > but maybe that needs to be added to the 0.8.0 version > Thanks for trying again and for your patience. I believe that the need to set up LD_LIBRARY_PATH for running gimp, is a problem with gimp's meson-based build system (or with that version of meson itself) and ought to be fixed there. But I may be wrong. Regards, Shlomi Fish > > > > Owen > -- Shlomi Fish https://www.shlomifish.org/ My Favourite FOSS - https://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/favourite/ And truth be told, I miss you. And truth be told, I’m lying. — The All American Rejects, “Gives You Hell” Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ 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
