08-20-2020, 06:33 AM
What distro and version are you using?
I also build Gimp from source (2.10 and 2.99) on Ubuntu 19.10 and even if the first attempts were not exactly a walk in the park I only had to recompile babl/gegl (that are core components of Gimp).
So yes, Gimp uses relatively recent versions of some libraries (though some that I have are older than ones you used), but then if there are new versions of libraries it is expected these are useful (we can't stay frozen in the 80's...). On the Ubuntu/Debian side using a distro older than Ubuntu 18.04 leads to a dependency avalanche.
If specific plugins are failing you can disable them (mark them as non-executable). But plugins run in separate processes and a plugin crash normally doesn't crash Gimp, so your problem could be elsewhere.
I also build Gimp from source (2.10 and 2.99) on Ubuntu 19.10 and even if the first attempts were not exactly a walk in the park I only had to recompile babl/gegl (that are core components of Gimp).
So yes, Gimp uses relatively recent versions of some libraries (though some that I have are older than ones you used), but then if there are new versions of libraries it is expected these are useful (we can't stay frozen in the 80's...). On the Ubuntu/Debian side using a distro older than Ubuntu 18.04 leads to a dependency avalanche.
If specific plugins are failing you can disable them (mark them as non-executable). But plugins run in separate processes and a plugin crash normally doesn't crash Gimp, so your problem could be elsewhere.