Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 08:46:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: Josh MacDonald <jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: Satoshi Asami <asami@freebsd.org>, jkh@time.cdrom.com, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gimp port Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.960828084543.23206C-100000@thurston.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199608280729.AAA12779@paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Josh MacDonald wrote: > > On the gimp port: > > Its really kind of pointless to go messing around with getting the > 0.54 to work, the new version in beta at > ftp://xcf.berkeley.edu/pub/gimp/developers is much more complete, > and doesn't require motif, and there's no way the authors (with > whom I'm fairly close friends) are going to maintain or answer > questions about. I've contributed some code to their new widget > toolkit and as such can guarantee that it compiles out of the box > on FreeBSD. > > On the current topic, they have reworked the gimprc code which was > really stupid in 0.54. Tell me when/where the latest version is, I'll move the port to that. At the moment, the port of 0.54 works ok, I fixed all. It Does Need Motif right now. > > -josh > > > * I just re-rebuilt it and tested it, I can't get it to fail yet. Did you > > * reinstall the /usr/X11R6/lib/tmp/gimprc as ~/.gimprc ? The end of the > > * install target echo's some hints on this .... > > > > Oh, I see. Well, there are two problems here: > > > > (1) The echo is buried inside a barrage of other printouts. At least > > it should be moved to the end of the post-install target, and > > surrounded by some eye-catching decoration. > > > > (2) pkg_add says nothing about it, so users without Motif (like me!) > > won't see it. It should probably be put there as pkg/INSTALL as a > > post-installation script (that way you can simply call that from > > post-install). > > > > (3) That will still only show up on the system administrator's shell. > > Maybe we can change the message `gimp fatal error: ".gimprc" file > > not found' to something that suggests the users copy that file to > > their home directories? > > > > Oops, there were three. > > > > Satoshi > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng..umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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