glib and gtk+ and other libs required by Gimp might be part of any current
Linux distro but they might not be the right versions required by any given
Gimp version.
As for the XML::Parser perl module, perl installations that come with Linux
distros will have some perl modules installed but not all. I think it's
reasonable to require the system owner or the person who is building Gimp
to make sure external libs and apps are configured per Gimp's requirements.
In this case, that means the system owner is responsible for making sure
perl is setup per Gimp's requirements unless Gimp is being built with perl
support disabled (if that is an option).
Peace...
Tom
"John R.
Culleton"
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On Friday 10 February 2006 04:46 pm, Michael Schumacher wrote:
> John R. Culleton wrote:
> > Not at all. I was noting that on two different flavors of linux
> > it is necessary to download and install material beyond that
> > contained in the Gimp download in order to get it to compile. And
> > that wasn't true in prior versions.
>
> Um... you're kidding, right?
>
> GTK+
> Glib
> libpng
> libjpeg
> gcc
> make
> ...
>
> are also required and not included.
All these and Perl are either included in a standard "full"
installation of e.g., Slackware or Debian Sarge, As I stated earler
previous editions of Gimp have compiled without difficulty. I
have Slackware Current up to date as of yesterday. I have Debian Sarge up
to
date as of yesterday. I can compile older versions of Gimp.
My concern is not so much with 2.3.x but with 2.4. If that stable
version requires software bits and pieces not found on most
Linux systems and not downloadable from ww.gimp.org then there
is trouble ahead.
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