From 3c6ed9764b728f1eb083d8194c32449d8b7bf393 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Raphael Quinet Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 07:53:27 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Minor fixes and improvements. Suggest using a different prefix and setting 2004-07-25 Raphael Quinet * INSTALL: Minor fixes and improvements. Suggest using a different prefix and setting PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR if old versions of GTK+ libs are found and cannot be removed without breaking other packages. --- ChangeLog | 7 +++++++ INSTALL | 18 +++++++++++++----- 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 65393625d8..0068d3771b 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2004-07-25 Raphaël Quinet + + * INSTALL: Minor fixes and improvements. Suggest using a + different prefix and setting PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR if old versions of + GTK+ libs are found and cannot be removed without breaking other + packages. + 2004-07-23 Shlomi Fish * plug-ins/gimpressionist/: created a header "orientation.h" diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index e0874dd0b1..8645463ee9 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ The `configure' script examines your system, and adapts the GIMP to run on it. The script has many options, some of which are described in the generic instructions included at the end of this file. All of the options can be listed using the command `./configure --help'. There -are five commands special options the GIMP `configure' script -recognizes. These are: +are several special options the GIMP `configure' script recognizes. +These are: --enable-shared and --disable-shared. This option affects whether shared libraries will be built or not. Shared libraries provide @@ -122,8 +122,9 @@ recognizes. These are: --with-gif-compression=[lzw|rle|none]. Allows to tune the compression algorithm used by the GIF plug-in. If you are afraid of Unisys' LZW - patent, you can go for simple run-length encoding or even configure - the plug-in to create uncompressed GIFs. + patent (which should have expired in most countries by now), you + can go for simple run-length encoding or even configure the plug-in + to create uncompressed GIFs. --enable-gtk-doc. This option controls whether the libgimp API references will be created using gtk-doc. The HTML pages are @@ -221,7 +222,14 @@ several reasons why this might fail: binary package of GTK+ was previously installed on your system, and you later compiled GTK+ from source. - Fix: remove the old libraries and include files. + Fix: Remove the old libraries and include files. If you are afraid + that removing the old libraries may break other packages supplied by + your distributor, you can try installing GLib, GTK+ and other + libraries in a different prefix after setting the environment + variable PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to point to lib/pkgconfig/ in that new + prefix so that it does not try to read the *.pc files from the + default directory (/usr/lib/pkgconfig). However, removing the old + packages is often the easier solution. A detailed log of the ./configure output is written to the file config.log. This may help diagnose problems.