GIMP 2.8 won't build with gegl-0.3

[Armin K]

GIMP 2.8 isn't compatible with gegl-0.3. It can only use gegl-0.2. Either gegl should be downgraded to 0.2 or a separate 0.2 package should be added (they are coinstallable).

[bdubbs@…]

Perhaps we can find a patch to allow gimp to use gegl-0.3.

[Armin K]

It isn't trivial. You'd have to use 2.10 development version (2.9.x).

[bdubbs@…]

I edited configure and changed all the gegl entries to 0.3.0 and it built fine. All references to gegl libraries were to libgegl-0.3.0.

Try building with:

sed -i '/gegl/s/2/3/' configure.ac
autoreconf -fiv

and continue as normal. The executable programs have references to libgegl-0.3.so.0 but the libraries do not reference gegl at all.

Note: After autoreconf, I added

sed -i '/seems to be moved/s/^/true; #/' ltmain.sh

because I really dislike thousands of comments because the autotools devs don't think about non-multilib 64-bit systems.

IF you confirm, I'll change the book.

[bdubbs@…]

Fixed at revision 17248.

[Armin K]

Builds and works for at least image cropping. I can at last get rid of gegl-0.2.