Better Way To Build

alxdotnet · 04-10-2004, 09:07 PM

Hey all,
Trying to build Gimp 2.0 on Mandrake 10.0 Community, 2.6.3mdk kernel. There HAS GOT TO BE a better way to manage dependencies...isn't there any kind of build system that I can grab the source and automatically download all dependencies? This seems much to complicated to tolerate. -Alex

paulsm4 · 04-10-2004, 10:23 PM

You're absolutely right.

The folks at Maven (http://maven.apache.org) are trying to do exactly that. Unfortunately, Maven is still very much still a "work in progress" ... and it's for Java only.

Inexactitude · 04-10-2004, 11:22 PM

Since you're using Mandrake, how about you just use the gimp that comes on the cds? Uprmi will solve all dependencies, and installing the software should be a snap.

alxdotnet · 04-11-2004, 09:22 AM

The Gimp from the CDs is version 1.2 or something, but I want the new 2.0. Also, i'd like to learn how to compile programs with dependencies from source (i'm working up to a new gnome 2.6 compile)

Komakino · 04-11-2004, 12:09 PM

I didn't find the install for gimp 2 to be hard...what problems are you having?

Inexactitude · 04-11-2004, 03:11 PM

You're best bet here is to see what dependency problems are being reported, and to install the dependencies one by one until you have resolved them all.

waterlover · 04-11-2004, 03:51 PM

Hi you can get a prebuilt mdk rpm for gimp-2.0 here