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Gimp build from source libtool error makefile edit

Hello,
So I've been trying to get GIMP 2.7 installed on my Slackware64 13.0, but I'm having some issues. After some extensive finagling and dependence findings, I got it to configure correctly, however, the make fails with libtool trying to find libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.la:

libtool: link: cannot find the library `..//usr/lib64/pkgconfig/gdk-pixbuf/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.la' or unhandled argument `..//usr/lib64/pkgconfig/gdk-pixbuf/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.la'

libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.la is in /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/, but for whatever reason, editing the makefile doesn't change this. (Yes I have the right permissions to edit it). What gives? First of all, why is it searching for /usr in the top build directory, and second, why doesn't an edit of the makefile work?

Thanks!

I have no solution for the expected issues,
but you may want to read this :
http://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.7.html
GIMP 2.7 Release Notes
QUOTE : " This is an unstable development version of the GNU Image
Manipulation Program. Please realize that this is just a snapshot of
the development tree. We are working hard towards GIMP 2.8, the next
stable release. GIMP 2.7 is in no way a final product. A lot of new
features are incomplete and some things may even be completely broken.
If you need to get work done, please use the stable version, GIMP 2.6."
.....

You betcha. I forgot to mention that I'm having the same issue with GIMP 2.6.8. From Slack64 13.0, gimp 2.6.6. runs just fine.

Gimp 2.6.8 .. Slackware 13 - 64

The following is done on a clean install, no dependencies added.
First thing to do : I will check the patching for 2.6.8 :
Debian Sid : none. Fedora 14 : yes
wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...6.fc14.src.rpm
sh unPack_rpm.sh gimp-2.6.8-6.fc14.src.rpm

Code:

bash-3.1# src2pkg -e="--sysconfdir=/etc" gimp-2.6.8.tar.bz2

Found source archive: gimp-2.6.8.tar.bz2

Creating working directories:

  PKG_DIR=/tmp/gimp-2.6.8-x86_64-1

  SRC_DIR=/tmp/gimp-2.6.8-src-1

Unpacking source archive - Done

Correcting source permissions - Done

Checking for patches - Found

Applying: gimp-2.6.2-xdg-open.patch

Applying: gimp-2.6.6-minimize-dialogs.patch

Applying: gimp-2.6.7-jpeg-units.patch

Applying: gimp-2.6.8-4-automake.patch.bz2

Applying: gimp-2.6.8-gold.patch

Applying: gimp-2.6.8-gtk219.patch

Notice - '.am', '.ac' or '.in' config files were patched

Regenerating config files - Using: autoreconf -if Done!

Found configure script - Done

Configuring sources using:

 LDFLAGS="-Wl,-L/lib64,-L/usr/lib64" CFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC -m64" ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64

Configuration has been - Successful!

Compiling sources - Using: 'make'

Compiling has been - Successful!

Checking for Makefile rule: 'install' Okay

Creating content in JAIL root - Using: 'make install'

Compiling has been - Successful!

Checking for Makefile rule: 'install' Okay

Creating content in JAIL root - Using: 'make install'

Safe content creation - Successful!

.

.

Creating package: gimp-2.6.8-x86_64-1.tgz - Done

Package Creation - Successful! Package Location:

/tmp/gimp-2.6.8-x86_64-1.tgz

Hmmm, that's weird, I've never really dealt with rpms in Slack...are your just running those all through rpm2tgz?

ha, just kidding, I completely misread that...sorry!

Actually it's no wrong idea to use rpm2targz with an
SRC RPM source code package.

'rpm2targz' does the rpm unpacking, and you get a
<package>.tar.gz with the source code, the patches,
and a spec file you can check for configure options.

The advantage of the unPack_rpm.sh script :
You don't forget to create a new directory.