Re: [Gimp-developer] test this howto now

2002-01-21 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Nathan C Summers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We have to be a little careful here, as in the off chance that > configure.in is written correctly and everything works right :) aclocal > doesn't say anything. That could confuse beginners. ("I type aclocal and > it didn't do anything!") t

Re: [Gimp-developer] test this howto now

2002-01-21 Thread Nathan C Summers
On 21 Jan 2002, Sven Neumann wrote: > I believe 'which' is more commonly available. However the easiest way > to find out if cvs is properly installed is to type 'cvs'. You'll either > get "cvs: command not found" or usage information from cvs. Good point. I like the directness. :) > > In th

Re: [Gimp-developer] test this howto now

2002-01-21 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Raphael Quinet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The command 'whereis cvs' is not available everywhere, or does not > always give the expected results. For example, on my Solaris machine, > typing "whereis cvs" prints "cvs:" and nothing else (which means that > the command /usr/ucb/whereis cann

Re: [Gimp-developer] test this howto now

2002-01-21 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Rebecca J. Walter wrote: > Please everyone test this how to and see if it is lacking anything. It > is intended to be a beginner tutorial for compiling gimp 1.2 from CVS. [...] > http://carol.gimp.org/gimp/howtos/cvs/cvs.html Some parts of the tutorial are Linux-centric or

Re: [Gimp-developer] test this howto now

2002-01-20 Thread Nick Lamb
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 04:15:09PM +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: > I have committed a rather inelegant change to gimp-1-2 that should > remove the need to have glib-2.0 and pkg-config installed in order > to compile the gimp-1-2 branch. Please let me know if you experience > any problems with the bui

Re: [Gimp-developer] test this howto now

2002-01-20 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, I have committed a rather inelegant change to gimp-1-2 that should remove the need to have glib-2.0 and pkg-config installed in order to compile the gimp-1-2 branch. Please let me know if you experience any problems with the build. Salut, Sven ___

Re: [Gimp-developer] test this howto now

2002-01-20 Thread Marco Wessel
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Ed Hunter wrote: > > is it intentional that you mention only how to get gimp 1.2, not HEAD? > yes, this is intentional HEAD is only for the very brave, this is meant for people who actually want to use the GIMP, and live to tell about it. I'm working on a 1.3 howto myse

Re: [Gimp-developer] test this howto now

2002-01-20 Thread Ed Hunter
Rebecca J. Walter wrote: > So read it and test it and critique it or feel the wrath of an angry > bex! Hi, bex, some nit picks for your nice tutorial: "... CVS installs itself into nicely named module directories ..." - not CVS, but the modules. Maybe it could be something like "softw

Re: [Gimp-developer] test this howto now

2002-01-20 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, "Rebecca J. Walter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sven even made changes in autogen to make the tutorial simpler. this is not true. I tried to get some magic into acinclude.m4 to remove the need to have glib-1.3 and pkg-config installed to compile gimp-1.2 from CVS. However I haven't found

[Gimp-developer] test this howto now

2002-01-20 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
Please everyone test this how to and see if it is lacking anything. It is intended to be a beginner tutorial for compiling gimp 1.2 from CVS. I want everyone to read it even if you don't have time to test it. Carol and I worked really hard on it. I wrote it as an intermediate tutorial, but carol