Minor fixes and improvements. Suggest using a different prefix and setting

2004-07-25  Raphael Quinet  <quinet@gamers.org>

	* 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.
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2004-07-25 Raphaël Quinet <quinet@gamers.org>
* 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 <shlomif@iglu.org.il> 2004-07-23 Shlomi Fish <shlomif@iglu.org.il>
* plug-ins/gimpressionist/: created a header "orientation.h" * plug-ins/gimpressionist/: created a header "orientation.h"

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INSTALL
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@ -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 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 the generic instructions included at the end of this file. All of the
options can be listed using the command `./configure --help'. There options can be listed using the command `./configure --help'. There
are five commands special options the GIMP `configure' script are several special options the GIMP `configure' script recognizes.
recognizes. These are: These are:
--enable-shared and --disable-shared. This option affects whether --enable-shared and --disable-shared. This option affects whether
shared libraries will be built or not. Shared libraries provide 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 --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 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 patent (which should have expired in most countries by now), you
the plug-in to create uncompressed GIFs. 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 --enable-gtk-doc. This option controls whether the libgimp API
references will be created using gtk-doc. The HTML pages are 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, binary package of GTK+ was previously installed on your system,
and you later compiled GTK+ from source. 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 A detailed log of the ./configure output is written to the file
config.log. This may help diagnose problems. config.log. This may help diagnose problems.