[Gimp-developer] concurrent 2.4 and 2.5

[Liam R E Quin]

On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 08:42 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote:

> http://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.5.html mentions quite explicitly
> that this is not going to work. /usr/local is not a separate
> installation prefix.

I use a shell script wrapper to start GIMP that sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH
and PATH, and it has always worked fine for me in /usr/local.
Except I did get in a mess with testing stuff once, when I forgot
and ran stuff from gdb or something, and complained that the
plugins werent' working :-)

But you're right, it won't just work if you run /usr/local/bin/gimp
directly and have /usr/bin/gimp installed too.

I wonder if it would be worth having configure generate a warning
at the end? /usr/local was the default prefix for me at least.

Liam

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