Installing GIMP help files
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| Installing GIMP help files | Mark Beihoffer | 27 Oct 20:20 |
| Installing GIMP help files | Sven Neumann | 28 Oct 08:06 |
| Installing GIMP help files | Mark Beihoffer | 28 Oct 18:33 |
| Installing GIMP help files | Sven Neumann | 29 Oct 07:53 |
| Installing GIMP help files | Roman Joost | 31 Oct 14:57 |
| Installing GIMP help files | Sven Neumann | 31 Oct 21:06 |
Installing GIMP help files
Hello,
I've been trying to install the GNU Image Manipulation Program help files on OpenBSD 4.3 for a while now, and no luck.
In most other distributions the help files are a separate package, but there is no OpenBSD package for them and nothing in the ports tree.
I downloaded the help files from ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/help/ as recommended by http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ and extracted the bzip2 files, then tried to follow the INSTALL document.
./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... ./install-sh -c -d
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... nawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
checking whether make is GNU make... configure: error: make not found
I installed gmake from packages and tried again, and it still couldn't find GNU make. There is nothing in the README or the INSTALL file that indicates I can set a flag to locate make during configuration.
What should I do?
Thanks,
- Mark Beihoffer http://www.dragonfly-networks.com
Installing GIMP help files
Hi,
On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 14:20 -0500, Mark Beihoffer wrote:
I installed gmake from packages and tried again, and it still couldn't find GNU make. There is nothing in the README or the INSTALL file that indicates I can set a flag to locate make during configuration.
What should I do?
You don't really need make as the package you downloaded already contains everything pre-built. Just copy the folder with the HTML files and images to the right location. The right location is share/gimp/2.0/help in the prefix of your GIMP installation.
Sven
Installing GIMP help files
Thanks for the response - unfortunately, this did not work for me.
I've tried to locate the HTML files, but all the files in the package I downloaded are XML files, not HTML files.
Copying the /src directory to /usr/local/share/gimp/2.0/help did not work - any other suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
- Mark Beihoffer
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:06 AM, Sven Neumann wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 14:20 -0500, Mark Beihoffer wrote:
I installed gmake from packages and tried again, and it still couldn't find GNU make. There is nothing in the README or the INSTALL file that indicates I can set a flag to locate make during configuration.
What should I do?
You don't really need make as the package you downloaded already contains everything pre-built. Just copy the folder with the HTML files and images to the right location. The right location is share/gimp/2.0/help in the prefix of your GIMP installation.
Sven
Installing GIMP help files
Hi,
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 12:33 -0500, Mark Beihoffer wrote:
Thanks for the response - unfortunately, this did not work for me.
I've tried to locate the HTML files, but all the files in the package I downloaded are XML files, not HTML files.
I am sorry, it looks like the content of the help package changed and I did not notice this change.
This is pretty bad. We used to ship pre-built HTML files in the release tarballs. The installation instructions in the file INSTALL also still refer to this situation. So they are pretty much wrong now. Roman, is this an intentional change? Shouldn't at least INSTALL be adjusted then?
Sven
Installing GIMP help files
Hi,
sorry for not replying earlier. Just had a teeth surgery and need a bit of time to relax.
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 07:53:40AM +0100, Sven Neumann wrote:
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 12:33 -0500, Mark Beihoffer wrote:
Thanks for the response - unfortunately, this did not work for me.
I've tried to locate the HTML files, but all the files in the package I downloaded are XML files, not HTML files.
I am sorry, it looks like the content of the help package changed and I did not notice this change.
Actually I'm puzzled. Because the last release also haven't had any pre-built HTML files and on a first thought I'm very sorry of this.
But on a second thought and a check at the Makefile I think we never released the manual as pre-built HTML files, but always as a source release. The reason for doing is because the distributors always created their own packages, seperated by languages.
This is pretty bad. We used to ship pre-built HTML files in the release tarballs. The installation instructions in the file INSTALL also still refer to this situation.
That's why I'm kind of confused. The past releases (prior to 2.4.1) are made one year ago and I can't say for sure how we did it. The built system changed to often ...
So they are pretty much wrong now. Roman, is this an intentional change? Shouldn't at least INSTALL be adjusted then?
I'll investigate this further soon as I'm feeling confortable.
As for the situation of Mark currently have: either we fix the built-system and do another release of the 2.4.2 tag or we fix the built-system to support OpenBSD (probably faster).
Greetings,
Installing GIMP help files
Hi,
On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 14:57 +0100, Roman Joost wrote:
But on a second thought and a check at the Makefile I think we never released the manual as pre-built HTML files
I am very sure that the build system was initially designed to distribute pre-built HTML files. And I am also sure that this used to be done at some point in history. The installation instructions for the user manual still clearly state this.
Sven
