I know that there are several people who have the problem with every image being black once they get GIMP going using X11, the X11 SDK and the GIMP package from OpenDarwin. I just found this
here and wondered if this is the problem:
7.2 Black icons in the GNOME panel or in the menu of a GNOME application
A common problem is that icons or other images are displayed as black rectangles or black outlines. Ultimately, this is caused by limitations in the operating system kernel. The problem has been reported to Apple, but so far they seem unwilling to fix it; see the filed Darwin bug report for details.
The current situation is that the MIT-SHM extension of the X11 protocol is practically unusable on Darwin and Mac OS X. There are two ways to turn the protocol extension off: in the server or in the clients. The XFree86 servers installed by Fink (i.e. the xfree86-server and xfree86-rootless packages) have it turned off. The GIMP and the GNOME panel have been innoculated as well. If you experience black icons in another application, start that application with the --no-xshm command line option.
I've tried running GIMP from the X11 Terminal with the command line '/usr/local/bin/gimp-1.2 --no-xshm' but I still get black images.
I am a UNIX newbie, but am excited by it and eager to learn. If any of the UNIX pro's here are able to offer ideas, I'm sure that there are several people, including myself, who would be grateful to them.
I am currently attempting to get GIMP installed on FINK, but it refuses to install using FINK Commander but keep getting the following failure:
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for mawk... no
checking for gawk... no
checking for nawk... no
checking for awk... awk
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... no
checking build system type... powerpc-apple-darwin6.3
checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin6.3
checking for style of include used by make... none
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
### execution of ./configure failed, exit code 1
Failed: compiling audiofile-0.2.3-4 failed
Any ideas on this one too?
Thanks.
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