Subject: Re: Compiling GIMP 0.99.10
To: None <port-arm32@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Paul S. Wain <pwain@nc.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 08/11/1997 00:29:38
Neil A. Carson wrote on port-arm32@netbsd.org
> 
> On Sat 09 Aug, Peter Berg wrote:
> 
> > > Could this person please tell me
> > > what these switches were, as GIMP is taking over 100mb of HD space from only
> > > a 2mb archive at the moment! (I haven't managed to build it in the available
> > > space.)
> >
> > Forget about it. Though it is a nice program, ist is completely unable to
> > work due the lack of an FPA. Even the simple rubber band totaly overloads
> > the system :((
> >
> > For this nice proggy we have sadly not the right hardware :((
> 
> Has someone with the new soft-float release tried this? It may at least
> make the system usable.

Im also thinking, Neil, that it probably _wont_ require all of the
compiler
mods that were needed to get it working - I would be interested in
seeing
if these are still needed with the latest (soft-float, dynamic linking)
copiler.

Paul