> On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 21:09 -0400, John Culleton wrote: >> On Monday 20 July 2009 07:00:08 pm Jernej SimonÄiÄ wrote: >> > On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:47:53 -0400, John Culleton wrote: >> > > The version that matches the version of Gimp in the tarball is >> > > what should be included IMO. >> > > > Ah, the old Windows way. Don't have it? We'll throw it in. It might > break other apps, but hey, that's their problem. :) > >> > Should GIMP then also include matching GTK+ and GLib? And other >> > mandatory dependencies? >> >> The hangup for many users is gegl and babl, and not the other >> requirements. The distros are more likely to include them. perhaps >> it is because gegl and babl are relatively new libraries, while the >> others have been with us for quite a while. >> > > They could make mention of these on the Downloads Web page. I don't > find > any information on installing from source in the documentation, > either.
>From the INSTALL The most important part is to make sure the requirements for a build are fulfilled. We depend on a number of tools and libraries which are listed below. For libraries this means you need to also have the header files installed. ****************************************************************** * Unless you are experienced with building software from source, * * you should not attempt to build all these libraries yourself! * * We suggest that you check if your distributor has development * * packages of them and use these instead. * ****************************************************************** It then goes on to list the necessary requirements which include gegl and babl. Distros with any sort of reasonable package management can cope with all these things. -- Owen _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
