Make INSTALL be generated by autoconf/configure - automatically updates version numbers.

INSTALL.in

@@ -1,19 +1,19 @@
 --------------------------------------
-Installation instructions for GIMP 2.8
+Installation instructions for GIMP @GIMP_APP_VERSION@
 --------------------------------------
 
 There are some basic steps to building and installing GIMP.
 
-GIMP 2.8 replaces earlier GIMP 2.x versions. It is advised that you
+GIMP @GIMP_APP_VERSION@ replaces earlier GIMP 2.x versions. It is advised that you
-uninstall them before installing GIMP 2.8. If you want to keep your
+uninstall them before installing GIMP @GIMP_APP_VERSION@ If you want to keep your
-older GIMP 2.x installation in parallel to GIMP 2.8, you have to
+older GIMP 2.x installation in parallel to GIMP @GIMP_APP_VERSION@, you have to
 choose a separate prefix which is not in your default library search
 path.
 
-GIMP 2.8 is fully backward compatible to all earlier GIMP 2.x version.
+GIMP @GIMP_APP_VERSION@ is fully backward compatible to all earlier GIMP 2.x version.
 Plug-ins and scripts written for GIMP 2.6 or earlier GIMP 2.x versions
 will continue to work and don't need to be changed nor recompiled to
-be used with GIMP 2.8.
+be used with GIMP @GIMP_APP_VERSION@.
 
 The most important part is to make sure the requirements for a build
 are fulfilled.  We depend on a number of tools and libraries which are
@@ -32,29 +32,29 @@ header files installed.
   1. You need to have installed a recent version of pkg-config available
      from http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/.
 
-  2. You need intltool (at least 0.40.1, but preferably a newer version).
+  2. You need intltool (at least @INTLTOOL_REQUIRED_VERSION@, but preferably a newer version).
      Intltool can be downloaded from
      http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/intltool/
 
-  3. You need to have GEGL version 0.3.0 or newer and babl version
+  3. You need to have GEGL version @GEGL_REQUIRED_VERSION@ or newer and babl version
-     0.1.11 or newer. You can get them from http://gegl.org/ or clone
+     @BABL_REQUIRED_VERSION@ or newer. You can get them from http://gegl.org/ or clone
      them from the GNOME git repository:
 
        git://git.gnome.org/babl
        git://git.gnome.org/gegl
 
-  4. You need to have installed GTK+ version 2.24.10 or newer.
+  4. You need to have installed GTK+ version @GTK_REQUIRED_VERSION@ or newer.
-     GIMP also need a recent versions of GLib (>= 2.36.0), GDK-Pixbuf
+     GIMP also need a recent versions of GLib (>= @GLIB_REQUIRED_VERSION@), GDK-Pixbuf
-     (>= 2.24.1), and Pango (>= 1.29.4). Sources for these can be grabbed
+     (>= @GDK_PIXBUF_REQUIRED_VERSION@), and Pango (>= @PANGOCAIRO_REQUIRED_VERSION@). Sources for these can be grabbed
      from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/.
 
-  5. We use cairo >= 1.10.2, which is hosted at
+  5. We use cairo >= @CAIRO_REQUIRED_VERSION@, which is hosted at
      http://www.cairographics.org/.
 
   6. We require PangoCairo, a Pango backend using Cairo. Make sure you
      have Cairo, FreeType2 and fontconfig installed before you compile
-     Pango. GIMP depends on freetype2 being newer than version 2.1.7
+     Pango. GIMP depends on freetype2 being newer than version @FREETYPE2_REQUIRED_VERSION@
-     and fontconfig 2.2.0 or newer. Older versions are known to have
+     and fontconfig @FONTCONFIG_REQUIRED_VERSION@ or newer. Older versions are known to have
      bugs that seriously affect the stability of GIMP.
 
   7. Access of remote files is implemented in the URI plug-in. There
@@ -93,9 +93,21 @@ header files installed.
      of make, we'd appreciate if you'd send us a patch with the changes.
 
  15. Install GIMP by running `make install'. In order to avoid clashes
-     with other versions of GIMP, we install a binary called gimp-2.8.
+     with other versions of GIMP, we install a binary called gimp-@GIMP_APP_VERSION@.
      By default there's also a link created so that you can type 'gimp'
-     to start gimp-2.8.
+     to start gimp-@GIMP_APP_VERSION@.
+
+ 16. Summary of required packages and what version you need:
+
+     cairo: @CAIRO_REQUIRED_VERSION@
+     glib: @GLIB_REQUIRED_VERSION@
+     pangocairo: @PANGOCAIRO_REQUIRED_VERSION@
+     atk: @ATK_REQUIRED_VERSION@
+     fontconfig: @FONTCONFIG_REQUIRED_VERSION@
+     babl: @BABL_REQUIRED_VERSION@
+     gdk_pixbuf: @GDK_PIXBUF_REQUIRED_VERSION@
+     gegl: @GEGL_REQUIRED_VERSION@
+     freetype2: @FREETYPE2_REQUIRED_VERSION@
 
 Please make sure you don't have any old GTK+-2.x, jpeg, etc. libraries
 lying around on your system, otherwise configure may fail to find the
@@ -107,8 +119,8 @@ packages are included below. Here is an illustration of commands that
 might be used to build and install GIMP. The actual configuration,
 compilation and installation output is not shown.
 
-  % tar xvfz gimp-2.8.x.tar.gz   # unpack the sources
+  % tar xvfz gimp-@GIMP_VERSION@.tar.gz   # unpack the sources
-  % cd gimp-2.8.x                # change to the toplevel directory
+  % cd gimp-@GIMP_VERSION@                # change to the toplevel directory
   % ./configure                  # run the `configure' script
   % make                         # build GIMP
   % make install                 # install GIMP
@@ -143,8 +155,8 @@ These are:
      is intended primarily as a convenience for developers.
 
   --with-gimpdir=DIR.  This option changes the default directory
-     GIMP uses to search for its configuration files from ~/.gimp-2.8
+     GIMP uses to search for its configuration files from ~/.gimp-@GIMP_APP_VERSION@
-     (the directory .gimp-2.8 in the users home directory) to DIR.
+     (the directory .gimp-@GIMP_APP_VERSION@ in the users home directory) to DIR.
 
   --enable-binreloc.  When compiled for Linux with this option enabled,
      GIMP will be binary relocatable.  Plug-ins and data files will
@@ -240,8 +252,8 @@ These are:
      if you call configure with --without-desktop-dir.
 
   --disable-default-binary. Use this option if you don't want to make
-     gimp-2.8 the default GIMP installation. Otherwise a link called
+     gimp-@GIMP_APP_VERSION@ the default GIMP installation. Otherwise a link called
-     gimp pointing to the gimp-2.8 executable will be installed.
+     gimp pointing to the gimp-@GIMP_APP_VERSION@ executable will be installed.
 
   --disable-gimp-console.  Use this option if you don't want the
      gimp-console binary to be built in addition to the standard binary.
@@ -263,7 +275,7 @@ The `make' command builds several things:
  - A bunch of public libraries in the directories starting with 'libgimp'.
  - The plug-in programs in the 'plug-ins' directory.
  - Some modules in the 'modules' subdirectory.
- - The main GIMP program 'gimp-2.8' in `app'.
+ - The main GIMP program 'gimp-@GIMP_APP_VERSION@' in `app'.
 
 The `make install' commands installs the GIMP header files associated
 with the libgimp libraries, the plug-ins, some data files and the GIMP

configure.ac

@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ m4_define([cairo_required_version], [1.12.2])
 m4_define([cairo_pdf_required_version], [1.12.2])
 m4_define([pangocairo_required_version], [1.29.4])
 m4_define([fontconfig_required_version], [2.2.0])
+m4_define([freetype2_required_version], [2.1.7])
 m4_define([gtkdoc_required_version], [1.0])
 m4_define([webkit_required_version], [1.6.1])
 m4_define([alsa_required_version], [1.0.0])
@@ -65,7 +66,7 @@ m4_define([libpng_required_version], [1.2.37])
 m4_define([liblzma_required_version], [5.0.0])
 m4_define([openexr_required_version], [1.6.1])
 m4_define([gtk_mac_integration_required_version], [1.0.1])
-
+m4_define([intltool_required_version], [0.40.1])
 
 AC_INIT([GIMP], [gimp_version],
         [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GIMP],
@@ -125,12 +126,24 @@ GTK_REQUIRED_VERSION=gtk_required_version
 CAIRO_REQUIRED_VERSION=cairo_required_version
 GEGL_REQUIRED_VERSION=gegl_required_version
 GEXIV2_REQUIRED_VERSION=gexiv2_required_version
+PANGOCAIRO_REQUIRED_VERSION=pangocairo_required_version
+BABL_REQUIRED_VERSION=babl_required_version
+FONTCONFIG_REQUIRED_VERSION=fontconfig_required_version
+FREETYPE2_REQUIRED_VERSION=freetype2_required_version
+ATK_REQUIRED_VERSION=atk_required_version
+INTLTOOL_REQUIRED_VERSION=intltool_required_version
 AC_SUBST(GLIB_REQUIRED_VERSION)
 AC_SUBST(GDK_PIXBUF_REQUIRED_VERSION)
 AC_SUBST(GTK_REQUIRED_VERSION)
 AC_SUBST(CAIRO_REQUIRED_VERSION)
 AC_SUBST(GEGL_REQUIRED_VERSION)
 AC_SUBST(GEXIV2_REQUIRED_VERSION)
+AC_SUBST(PANGOCAIRO_REQUIRED_VERSION)
+AC_SUBST(BABL_REQUIRED_VERSION)
+AC_SUBST(FONTCONFIG_REQUIRED_VERSION)
+AC_SUBST(FREETYPE2_REQUIRED_VERSION)
+AC_SUBST(ATK_REQUIRED_VERSION)
+AC_SUBST(INTLTOOL_REQUIRED_VERSION)
 
 # The symbol GIMP_UNSTABLE is defined above for substitution in
 # Makefiles and conditionally defined here as a preprocessor symbol
@@ -457,7 +470,7 @@ fi
 # Internationalisation
 ######################
 
-IT_PROG_INTLTOOL(0.40.1)
+IT_PROG_INTLTOOL(intltool_required_version)
 AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT
 
 
@@ -2130,6 +2143,7 @@ _______EOF
 ])
 
 AC_CONFIG_FILES([
+INSTALL
 tools/Makefile
 tools/pdbgen/Makefile
 libgimp/Makefile