Error on Merging The Gimp....!

tomboy · n00b Joined: 24 Oct 2002 Posts: 28

I try too emerge gimp, emerge dowloaded all the packages and compiled them! And when it starts to compile the gimp this message was shown :

patching file Makefile.am
Hunk #1 succeeded at 112 (offset 7 lines).
>>> Reconfiguring package...
* Reonfigure failed, please attatch the contents of:
*
* /var/tmp/portage/gimp-1.2.3-r2/temp/autoreconf.log
*
* in your bugreport.

!!! ERROR: The ebuild did not complete successfully.
!!! Function src_unpack, Line -69, Exitcode 1
!!! running autoreconf failed

how i can remove this error, i tried to merge autoconf but it don't work!

greetingz, tomboy

cedric · n00b Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 27 Location: Belgium

I had the same error and I had to emerge cvs to solve it.

LugnutsForBrains · Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2002 11:30 pm Post subject: CVS emerge solved this?

I am a complete noob to Gentoo and very wet behind the ears with Linux in general.

I just emerged CVS and it did not solve the problem. Is there anything else that you did?
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frogold · n00b Joined: 25 Oct 2002 Posts: 2

emerge the newer gettext.
heres how

emerge rsync
to update your portage tree.

emerge -up system
to see what all needs to be updated

emerge -u gettext

I would avoid emerging pam-login as it breaks gdm.
after you update gettext do a
emerge clean.

gimp should now emerge fine.

Also if you have problems with cups emerge the older 1.1.14

tomboy · n00b Joined: 24 Oct 2002 Posts: 28

i just dowloaded the orig files from www.gimp.org and compiled them by hand! now it worx fine!

cedric · n00b Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 27 Location: Belgium

I looked in the file /var/tmp/portage/gimp-1.2.3-r2/temp/autoreconf.log and saw that the error was that cvs was missing. So I emerged cvs and it solved my problem.

dnmrkhm · n00b Joined: 02 Oct 2002 Posts: 11

i had the same issue.... not sure why gimp needs cvs to be installed?... sounds like it could be a bug

LugnutsForBrains

Building a new system (1.4rc1) and emerging kde, my KDE installation failed at the point where it was emerging GIMP. It turned out that my problem was really xfree-4.2.1. I found instructions in the forum to do:

emerge unmerge xfree
emerge =x11-base/xfree-4.2.0-r12
emerge kde
emerge unmerge =x11-base/xfree-4.2.0-r12
emerge =x11-base/xfree-4.2.1

And, so far so good.
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unixownz · n00b Joined: 22 Oct 2002 Posts: 31

I did that, but I get the same error when compiling
kde and kde-base !!
Rawr !

Its the same gimp1.2.3 error.

I did exactly as above. =(

How do I compile the gimp by hand ? and what directoyr do i put it into ?

LugnutsForBrains · Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2002 11:02 pm Post subject:

Did you try all the other suggestions in this thread as above? If not, follow them top to bottom. Maybe it depends on all of the things mentioned, because I tried from the top down, until I tried the XFree solution...

I did not try to compile gimp by hand.
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unixownz · n00b Joined: 22 Oct 2002 Posts: 31

I tried all the things above. STill to no avail will it work...
Oh wait.. I didnt not try the cvs thing, because I dotn know what that is..
But I did try the Xfree switch to 4.2 and teh
Emerge gettext ...

Both did not remindy my problem..
I just dled gimp, I will be trying to install it later this weekend..
Wish me luck, because its my only hope left.

If you have any other solutions, tell me =)
Or tell me about more about this CVS thing and how to do it.
Hehe Thx

LugnutsForBrains · Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2002 2:25 am Post subject:

All I know is

H-Dragon · Guru Joined: 22 Oct 2002 Posts: 547

cvs is a ... program to get source files onto your computer... it gets you the newest (sometimes unstable) stuff off the internet straight from the developer...
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