Compiling GIMP 2.6.5 on CentOS 5

GIMP 2.6.5 is the fantastic tool for photographers that live in the free world. But sadly it has no official RPM built for CentOS/RHEL users. I have spent 4 hours and compiled GIMP 2.6.5 on CentOS 5 for Tina by using the official tarball.

I planned to use the GIMP SRPM from Fedora Rawhide (which was 2.6.5) but after Fedora 10 the Rawhide had moved to a new format of RPM and I have no way to install nor unpack those new SRPMs to get the code (neither on CentOS 5 or Debian Unstable). Therefore I had to fall back to use official tarball and install it to /opt. By this I lost the benefit of package management. So I have no RPM here to share with you but only a rough record of the steps:

1. download, build and install babl 0.0.22


2. download, build and install gegl 0.0.22


3. install intltool RPM from Fedora 10


4. download gettext SRPM (gettext-0.17-8.fc10.src.rpm) from Fedora 10 and rpmbuild it (with Java disabled). the GCJ shipped with CentOS 5 couldn't compile the Java code within gettext so they had to be disabled by the patch following.


5. build GIMP 2.6.5

The patch to disable Java of gettext:

--- /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/gettext.spec  2008-08-29 09:07:58.000000000 +0800
+++ gettext-for-el5.spec        2009-03-15 11:06:11.000000000 +0800
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # libintl.jar requires gcj >= 4.3 to build
-%define buildjar 1
+%define buildjar 0

 Summary: GNU libraries and utilities for producing multi-lingual messages
 Name: gettext
@@ -86,12 +86,12 @@
 export JAR=fastjar
 %endif
 %configure --without-included-gettext --enable-nls --disable-static \
-    --enable-shared --with-pic-=yes --disable-csharp --enable-java \
+    --enable-shared --with-pic-=yes --disable-csharp --disable-java \
     --disable-rpatha
 make %{?_smp_mflags} GCJFLAGS="-findirect-dispatch"

 # For generating gettext-tools/src/gnu.gettext.*
-make -C gettext-tools/src gnu.gettext.DumpResource
+#make -C gettext-tools/src gnu.gettext.DumpResource


 %install
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@
 %{_infodir}/gettext*
 %{_mandir}/man1/*
 %{_libdir}/%{name}
-%exclude %{_libdir}/%{name}/gnu.gettext.*
+#%exclude %{_libdir}/%{name}/gnu.gettext.*
 %dir %{_datadir}/%{name}
 %{_datadir}/%{name}/archive.tar.gz
 %{_datadir}/%{name}/styles
@@ -244,8 +244,8 @@
 %{_libdir}/preloadable_libintl.so
 %{_mandir}/man3/*
 %{_datadir}/%{name}/javaversion.class
-%doc gettext-runtime/intl-java/javadoc*
-%{_libdir}/%{name}/gnu.gettext.*
+#%doc gettext-runtime/intl-java/javadoc*
+#%{_libdir}/%{name}/gnu.gettext.*


 %files libs