I'm trying to build gimp 2.2.3 on RH-9.  freetype 2 seems to be broken.

Any ideas?

John.

John K. Herreshoff wrote:
> I'm trying to build gimp 2.2.3 on RH-9.  freetype 2 seems to be broken.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> John.
> 

Can you give us a copy of the command line history?
Not all of it mind you, just the point onwards where the 
compiler/configure tools spat out the first error message.

Joal.

Joal Heagney wrote:

> John K. Herreshoff wrote:
>> I'm trying to build gimp 2.2.3 on RH-9.  freetype 2 seems to be broken.
>> 
>> Any ideas?
>> 
>> John.
>> 
> 
> Can you give us a copy of the command line history?
> Not all of it mind you, just the point onwards where the
> compiler/configure tools spat out the first error message.
> 
> Joal.

Ehhh...  Here's what it was...  The two versions of freetype, where RH9 had
installed things (/usr/) and where I installed things (/usr/local) and
where Konstruct had installed things (~/kde3.3.1)  heheh.  It was a mess.
configure would figure that things were ok, but make would crash, saying
that I had pango 2.2 and pango 2.4.  There were cryptic messages to slash
and burn old freetypes, fontconfigs, and pangos, to mention a few
conflicts ;o)

Part of the problem was determining and finding missing libraries... 
configure was really good at smacking me along side my head and telling me
that before I could build the current library, I first needed to install
some other library, which probably depended on a different upgraded
library...  heheh.  I think that the depends went two and three deep at
times... but as gimp says on it's website, building libraries is not for
those who have not built libraries before.  I'm recently retired, so I went
on a crash course in library building.

I finally wiped my system and rebuilt it.  Still had the problem, but
reading the configure and make messages, I was able to sort things out.  So
I wound up building about 35 libraries and other goodies, improved the
system a whole lot, learned tons of stuff by googling and simpling reading
the compiler error messages (make -s &> make_messages). 

I don't know if it would be useful for gimp to give links to *all* of the
libraries and routines that are necessary to build from source.  It would
have saved me some time locating them on the web, but there were all of the
problems with the RH-9 installation that needed to be sorted out, and no
amount of hand-holding will do that.  That's something that one simpling
has to learn / figure out.

So gimp 2.2.3 runs *great*, I'm happy, and I'm thinking of what I can do to
further improve this old RH-9 box.

:o))

John.