Thanks. At least I know I'm not going crazy.
Michael Soibelman wrote:
> Nathan Moschkin wrote:
>
>> I am running into a great amount of difficulty trying to get
>> gimp-gap-2.4.0 to compile on openSUSE 10.3.
>>
>> From what I've seen on the internet, there are a few people who have
>> had the exact same problems.
>>
>> I got over one of the problems, which was an error in compiling ffmpeg
>> library ... I just downloaded the CVS snap-shot from the ffmpeg website
>> and replaced the code in the gimp-gap tree with this this code and it
>> worked okay.
>>
>> The next problem I run into is compiling libwavplayclient ... it is
>> looking for gtk headers in the wrong place, or something, and when I
try
>> to point it in the right direction, it comes at me with 1000 lines of
>> errors.
>>
>> So, I have no idea how to get this thing to compile.
>>
>> I compiled it fine on Debian, but I can't use Debian because my current
>> architecture is not fully sup****ted by anyone but openSUSE (I've tried
>> several distributions, and only openSUSE recognizes my sound card ...
>> I'm sure it has something to do with the magic blacklist file, but I
>> don't want to keep installing Linux, so I'm settling with openSUSE,
>> which is fine, I like it).
>>
>> Any help with regards to getting gimp-gap to compile would be greatly
>> appreciated. As it is, I've managed to do the work I needed to without
>> gap installed ... But it would be nice to make a flash animation that
>> had a little bit more resolution and depth than the 256 colors that
GIFs
>> allow.
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Nathan Moschkin.
>
> Well this is quite a task and requires a lot of effort..
>
> When I install this software I expect to take a good 5+ hours at least.
> First thing to note is that the script looks for very new versions of
> several packages. What I do is start by running ./configure and looking
> very closely at the config.log file. This is just a starting point and
> you'll have to go thru quite a bit to get to the finish line.
>
> Each time the script stops look at the 2-3 lines preceding the failure.
> Start looking for the source for this package and be prepared for more
> dependencies..
>
> Anyway, you'll need to get the latest versions of several packages to
begin.
> Get the sources so when you run 'make install' you'll be installing all
the
> headers as well. This way there's no need to get a separate development
> package. You'll want to get the latest from either ftp.gtk.org or newer
> still quite often from ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources. Look in the
gnome
> repo for as many packages as you find in the config.log file and use
those.
> Then the rest should be in the ftp.gtk.org repo.
>
> As I said earlier, this takes a lot of work. Nock off the prerequisites
one
> at a time until you are finished.
>
> P.S. There are a few programs that will NOT be in either of the above
> mentioned repo's so do a Google search and download sources from there
> respective Home Page.
>
> Sorry this doesn't really help a lot but perhaps next time I'll remember
to
> write down every step needed to get it working as I go along. It's
really
> a hassle and I do wish someone would make an easy to install openSUSE
rpm
> for GAP..
>
> But worth it to install if you like doing animations !
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