Hi Brion, > Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 13:21:46 -0800 > From: Brion Vibber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu > Subject: [Gimp-user] Re: New to list! Cannot write XPM > > Geek wrote: > > I am a Debian woody user and use the .deb package of GIMP, which is 1.2.3 > at > > this time. > > 1.2.3 is about three years old, and two entire release cycles have gone > by since then, including lots of bug fixes. If you can't run a current > version (the current stable release is 2.2.2), you might try contacting > the Debian package maintainer. > > (Much more recent versions of Gimp are available in Debian's testing and > unstable distributions.)
Unfortunately, that's not an option for me. There's serious glibc conflicts in the installers and therefore I'm stuck on stable. Pro'lly a hardware bug on my end. > > I just had to re-install and found my freshly installed GIMP cannot write > XPM, > > but only read. > > > > I have the full XPM libraries installed, including the -dev headers. > > A google search on 'gimp save xpm' turns up a notice about a problem on > Mandrake with a bug in the XPM library causing Gimp to be unable to save > XPM files. The same or a similar bug may or may not be hitting you. > > Also, you might want to specify just how things are failing. Is there an > error message when you try to save, or is the option of XPM not even > given? Are there messages on the console? etc Dead silent - no errors, nothing. It gives correct dialogs, alpha settings, then acts like it's saving, but the file's just not there! Enabling debuggers also show no errors. Google will not show the bug - for spam reasons, many maillists have "spider-spray" ;-) Sven gave me some good info, so I'll wait a week for the bugfix, then install the XPM library from sources. > -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) -- Gregg "t3h g33k" http://geek.scorpiorising.ca _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
