Hi folks, I'm sorry to barge in here, but I don't really know where else to turn.
I'm on RH9. I finally decided to upgrade the GIMP from 1.3.x to 2.2.6 (more about that in a minute). The problem I have right now is that it will not open or write tiff's. Now I suspect it is b/c of how I installed it. I installed into a custom location (with the --prefix option when I ran configure). During the upgrade, the first thing I discovered was that I needed to upgrade GTK+ and GLib. A while ago I tried upgrading those packages and realized that was a terrible idea. So I found http://www.cryptnet.net/fdp/gtk/local_install.html which told me how to install them in a different directory and use them. So that's what I did, I installed GTK+ 2.6.7 and glib 2.6.4 into my $HOME/usr directory. I ran into a problem with them complaining about some things and I ended up installing the following into the custom directory as well: atk 1.9.0 fontconfig 2.2.96 freetype 2.1.9 glib 2.6.4 gtk+ 2.6.7 pango 1.8.1 pkgconfig 0.17.1 libtiff 3.7.2 During the install I had to set a number of environmental vars: SED=sed LDFLAGS=-L/home/strycat/usr/lib LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/strycat/usr/lib PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/strycat/bin:/home/strycat/usr/bin/ LD_RUN_PATH=/home/strycat/usr/lib PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=/home/strycat/usr/lib/pkgconfig/:/home/strycat/usr/lib/ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/strycat/usr/:/home/strycat/usr/lib/pkgconfig/:/home/strycat/usr/lib/ LIBTIFF=/home/strycat/usr/lib -ltiff FREETYPE_CONFIG='/home/strycat/usr/bin/freetype-config' Now once I did all of that that I compiled the gimp. It complained about not having gimp-print so I used the --disable-print option when I ran configure. It complied and installed fin into $HOME/usr However it doesn't seem to know anything about tiff files now. I'm pretty sure I've done something wrong while compiling it. Can anyone help? I've been struggling with this all weekend. Thanks, Tom _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
