GIMP Version: 2.7
Operating System: Linux
OS Version: Debian/SolusOS
GIMP Experience: Advanced Level

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I am posting here, as it would seem to be the appropriate forum for this discussion. Seeing as I take great interest in photography and graphic design, gimp-2.9 has piqued my interest due to its support for high-bit depth images. Whilst it is a development build, I am interested in building and exploring it. This task would be easily accomplished if it were not for the fact that any source code has apparently disappeared off the face of the face of the earth. All references to 2.9 have been in threads where people are having trouble building binaries. The link to the 2.9 source code on the gimp website is broken, and the v2.9 folder has disappeared from what would seem to be all the software mirrors. This is incredibly odd, to say the least, and I would greatly appreciate the most up-to-date tarball any of you have.

The source tree is available as the "high-bit-depths-REBASED" branch in the GIMP's git repository.

Oh no.
gimp 2.9 is in the "master" branch in http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/
The "high-bits-depths-REBASED" branch last update is a year ago.

I wrote a howto quite some time ago:
viewtopic.php?f=24&t=1261
The only difference will be that now you'll get version 2.9.x
Good luck.
Gerard.

No. I assure you that I know how to build it. If I were able to download it.
I checked the git repo. Can't find a trace of it.

I think gerard82's point was that you have to git clone the branch, not download a tarball.
Which appears to be confirmed by the source code page on the GIMP web-site:http://www.gimp.org/downloads/#mirrors

I would guess they will only make a tarball when a release is made i.e. when it goes from 2.9.1(?) -> 2.9.???

Well have it your way roby718.
I install 2.9 from time to time to see what the progress is.
But apparently neither OnkelHatti's nor my replies satisfy you.
Good luck.
Gerard.

This is really weird. Can you provide the terminal output when you do:

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Thanks,
Partha

@parta,
I assume this question is directed at roby718.
Gerard.

Of course Gerard.

The quote indentations may not have shown properly on your screen.

If you are on Windows 32-bit, and are willing to use the MinGW compiler, then everything you need to know is on my web page. Everything, from scratch. All instructions. All links. Successful builds. Verified by others. Last successful build of 2.9 was five days ago, right after bug fix 685445 in Git code.

http://robertallgeyer.com/content/speci ... p-2.9.html

As for Linux (the original question in this thread): I have successfully built 2.9 on Ubuntu and openSUSE. The last build for those was in early October (I'll try again in the near future). With Ubuntu, the then-dev 12.10 release was needed, as 12.04 didn't have enough support without grabbing lots of backports. For openSUSE, 12.2 with rolling updates did the job. Complicated hacks were not necessary.

Edit: Git code from October 27, 2012 builds and launches on Windows32/MinGW and on openSUSE. Didn't try Ubuntu yet.