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Date:      Sun, 3 May 1998 11:33:03 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
Cc:        Roddie Hasan <roddie@krweb.net>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: -current and Gimp .99.28.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980503113215.15307l-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <19980503173958.48425@follo.net>

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On Sun, 3 May 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote:

> On Sun, May 03, 1998 at 09:16:58AM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
> > > > Roddie Hasan wrote:
> > > > > Updated my sources, built a kernel and made world this morning, and now
> > > > > when I run Gimp .99.28,get the splash screen, then I get a blank tips
> > > > > dialog and toolbar and the following message:
> > > > > 
> [...]
> > 
> > I just saw this, it's possible it might be what John thinks, but this
> > same, exact thing happens every time you try to update gimp without
> > being very thorough about erasing the previous gimp before building the
> > new one.  Just doing a pkg_delete is *not* good enough.  You have to get
> > rid of every possible vestige of gimp, in various places, including any
> > .gimprc directories, any places in /usr/local or /usr/X11R6, stuff like
> > that.  The problem is a very enthusiastic configuration script that gimp
> > uses.  Go back over your system, be *extremely* certain that all the old
> > gimp is off your system, then build the new one, it'll work.
> 
> This sound like a gratious bug in either GIMP or the GIMP port.  Is
> anybody looking at it?

It's not a PR.  Let me have a look at it, maybe a little freezing of the
configuration script might be in order.

> 
> Eivind.
> 
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