[Gimp-developer] Successfull compile, will not run

[Michael Natterer]

On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 16:43 +0100, Simon Budig wrote:
> Milos Prudek (prudek at bvx.cz) wrote:
> > After successfully compiling gimp-2.3.13, on Mandriva 2007.0, Gimp fails to 
> > run with this error message:
> > 
> > /usr/local/bin/gimp-2.3: symbol lookup error: /usr/local/bin/gimp-2.3: 
> > undefined symbol: gimp_vectors_stroke_type_get_type
> > 
> > Should I file a bug report?
> 
> Please try 'ldd /usr/local/bin/gimp-2.3' first to verify that gimp does
> pick up the correct libraries on startup. I suspect a broken
> installation here.

And note that you can *not* have gimp 2.2 in /usr and gimp 2.3 
in /usr/local. 2.3 is supposed to replace 2.2, and /usr/local
is *not* a totally separate prefix.

Use something like /opt or get rid of gimp 2.2 in /usr

ciao,
--mitch