Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP build: XDG_DATA_DIRS causing "Unrecognized image file format"

"Liam R. E. Quin" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.gimp.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 2019-09-03 at 15:10 -0400, Elle Stone wrote:
> 
> What I do know is that building babl/GEGL/GIMP is getting
> increasingly 
> complicated. 

Yes - i think it now depends on whether you'r wearing shoes, and the
colour of your socks. That is, it depends on things most of us eouldn't
think were relevant; we have to learn about the new dependencies.


> In case anyone has an idea what went wrong, here's the terminal
> output for the failed GEGL build:

[...]

> Couldn't find include 'Babl-0.1.gir' (search path: '['gir-1.0', 
> '/usr/share/gir-1.0', '/usr/share/gir-1.0', '/usr/share/gir-1.0']')
> [223/750] Generating module_common_gpl3.c with a meson_exe.py custom 
> command.

XDG_DATA_DIRS is used to find this. So, i think what matters is having
XDG_DATA_DIRS set, but also the order of the entries within it when it
is set. You need $prefix first i think.

slave ankh


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