Bug 953081 – media-gfx/gimp-3.0.0 fails to build: Dependency "babl" not found, tried pkgconfig and cmake

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description palapapa 2025-04-03 13:23:04 UTC]

media-gfx/gimp-3.0.0 fails to build with the error:
meson.build:398:20: ERROR: Dependency "babl" not found, tried pkgconfig and cmake

For the log and other information, please see the attachment.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. sudo emerge gimp
Actual Results:  
GIMP fails to build.

Expected Results:  
GIMP builds successfully.

[Comment 1 palapapa 2025-04-03 13:24:11 UTC]

Created attachment 923544 [details]
Log and emerge --info

[Comment 2 Sam James 2025-04-03 14:48:42 UTC]

Dependency babl-0.1 found: NO. Found 0.1.111 but need: '>=0.1.112'

[Comment 3 palapapa 2025-04-03 14:58:27 UTC]

(In reply to Sam James from comment #2)
> Dependency babl-0.1 found: NO. Found 0.1.111 but need: '>=0.1.112'

That's weird. My babl version is 9999, but the actual installed version is 0.1.111.

[Comment 4 Sergey Torokhov 2025-04-03 15:47:41 UTC]

I suspect that your babl-9999 live ebuild built date could be too old. So you need to rebuild it and then try to emerge gimp again.

[Comment 5 palapapa 2025-04-03 16:03:11 UTC]

(In reply to Sergey Torokhov from comment #4)
> I suspect that your babl-9999 live ebuild built date could be too old. So
> you need to rebuild it and then try to emerge gimp again.

That fixed it. I forgot that live ebuilds don't get updated automatically because their versions are always 9999.