Hello,
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 4:12 PM, wrote:
Hi,
I just pulled a clean svn gimp and wanted to build with
--prefix=/usr/local , I supplied this arguement to autogen.sh and it
output both that prefix and --prefix=/opt/gimp , which I presume is the
new default.
... No. Something is wrong. Gimp does not specify any such thing.
In fact, I always had the impression that for SVN versions, prefix
defaulted to /usr/local.
This may actually be a problem with your autotools.
I can verify that mine accept my chosen prefix (/usr) without saying
anything more, I'm running
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.61
automake 1.10 or 1.7 (yes, both.. normally programs use 1.10, some need 1.7)
on an installation of Ubuntu Hardy Heron.
What versions are you running (automake --version / autoconf
--version) on what distribution?
I had the same behaviour from babl , although it did install where I
requested
bash-3.2#ls /usr/local/lib
babl-0.0 libbabl-0.0.la libbabl-0.0.so.0 pkgconfig
fpc libbabl-0.0.so libbabl-0.0.so.0.23.0 X11
However, now I try to build gegl it can't find babl:
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for BABL... configure: error: Package requirements (babl >=
0.0.22) were not met:
No package 'babl' found
Why can't it see a correctly installed babl? /usr/local/bin is in $PATH.
...
Does the binary directory have anything to do with it? After all, babl
installs no binaries, only libraries (ie /usr/local/lib/)
BTW INSTALL says to run ./configure which does not exist, should this be
corrected to say autogen.sh ?
configure exists for releases -- it's generated by autogen.sh. This is
normal for autotools-based software building.
Hope that helped,
David
