I've downloaded the latest version of Gimp (2.0pre3) and have been trying to install it on my system without much success (as in I've no idea what's wrong!)

I've run ./configure --prefix=/usr

which works fine fine

I then try make and this fails miserably after a little while, the following snippet is from the console:-


nstructors.o file-dialog-utils.o file-new-dialog.o file-open-dialog.o file-save-dialog.o font-select.o gradient-select.o grid-dialog.o info-dialog.o info-window.o module-browser.o offset-dialog.o palette-import-dialog.o palette-select.o pattern-select.o preferences-dialog.o resize-dialog.o resolution-calibrate-dialog.o stroke-dialog.o templates-commands.o templates-menu.o tips-dialog.o tips-parser.o user-install-dialog.o brushes-menu.o buffers-commands.o buffers-menu.o channels-commands.o channels-menu.o colormap-editor-commands.o colormap-editor-menu.o data-commands.o debug-commands.o dialogs-commands.o dialogs-menu.o documents-commands.o documents-menu.o drawable-commands.o edit-commands.o error-console-commands.o error-console-menu.o file-commands.o file-open-menu.o file-save-menu.o fonts-commands.o fonts-menu.o gradient-editor-commands.o gradient-editor-menu.o gradients-commands.o gradients-menu.o help-commands.o image-commands.o image-menu.o images-commands.o images-menu.o layers-commands.o layers-menu.o menus.o palette-editor-commands.o palette-editor-menu.o palettes-commands.o palettes-menu.o patterns-menu.o plug-in-commands.o plug-in-menus.o qmask-commands.o qmask-menu.o select-commands.o tool-options-menu.o tool-options-commands.o toolbox-menu.o tools-commands.o vectors-commands.o vectors-menu.o view-commands.o color-history.o gui.o gui-vtable.o session.o splash.o themes.o
ranlib libappgui.a
ranlib: libappgui.a: No space left on device
make[3]: *** [libappgui.a] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/tar_files/gimp-2.0pre3/app/gui'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/tar_files/gimp-2.0pre3/app'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/tar_files/gimp-2.0pre3'
make: *** [all] Error 2


Any idea how to fix it

no space on device? do you have enuff free space on /usr? check 'df'

I've got 463Mb free on /usr, surely that is sufficient for Gimp?

Hmm, just had a look on /usr/local (different partition) and this is where gimp is currently sat, there's only 7.2Mb free, will try removing some junk and trying again ....

ok, I've been back into Slackware and tried again after removing some of the junk and I got much further in the compile this time, but still no success

This time I get the following error

/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so -ldl /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.2.3/../../../../i486-slackware-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lslang
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [aa] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/tar_files/gimp-2.0pre3/plug-ins/common'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/tar_files/gimp-2.0pre3/plug-ins'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/tar_files/gimp-2.0pre3'
make: *** [all] Error 2

what the heck is lslang

gcc -v?

configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-checking --with-gnu-ld --verbose --target=i486-slackware-linux --host=i486-slackware-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.2.3