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Hello everyone,

I am going to hold off on updating python2-gimp to 2.10.38 unitl pygtk has a patch accepted. If you would like to go ahead and do it yourself, you need to patch pygtk to have the flags -fpermissive for it to build; you can read my comment on that package.

there is an error that some modules can not be loaded

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/spyro_plus/spyro_plus.py", line 18, in <module>
    from gimpshelf import shelf
  File "/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/python/gimpshelf.py", line 40, in <module>
    import gimp
ImportError: could not import gobject (error was: 'libffi.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory')
gimp: LibGimpBase-WARNING: gimp: gimp_wire_read(): error
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/python-eval/python-eval.py", line 19, in <module>
    from gimpfu import *
  File "/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/python/gimpfu.py", line 76, in <module>
    import gimp
ImportError: could not import gobject (error was: 'libffi.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory')
gimp: LibGimpBase-WARNING: gimp: gimp_wire_read(): error
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/python-console/python-console.py", line 19, in <module>
    from gimpfu import *
  File "/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/python/gimpfu.py", line 76, in <module>
    import gimp
ImportError: could not import gobject (error was: 'libffi.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory')
gimp: LibGimpBase-WARNING: gimp: gimp_wire_read(): error
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/py-slice/py-slice.py", line 30, in <module>
    from gimpfu import *
  File "/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/python/gimpfu.py", line 76, in <module>
    import gimp
ImportError: could not import gobject (error was: 'libffi.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory')
gimp: LibGimpBase-WARNING: gimp: gimp_wire_read(): error
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/palette-to-gradient/palette-to-gradient.py", line 16, in <module>
    from gimpfu import *
  File "/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/python/gimpfu.py", line 76, in <module>
    import gimp
ImportError: could not import gobject (error was: 'libffi.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory')
gimp: LibGimpBase-WARNING: gimp: gimp_wire_read(): error
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/palette-sort/palette-sort.py", line 17, in <module>
    from gimpfu import *
  File "/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/python/gimpfu.py", line 76, in <module>
    import gimp
ImportError: could not import gobject (error was: 'libffi.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory')
gimp: LibGimpBase-WARNING: gimp: gimp_wire_read(): error
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/palette-offset/palette-offset.py", line 16, in <module>
    from gimpfu import *
  File "/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/python/gimpfu.py", line 76, in <module>
    import gimp
ImportError: could not import gobject (error was: 'libffi.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory')
gimp: LibGimpBase-WARNING: gimp: gimp_wire_read(): error
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/histogram-export/histogram-export.py", line 40, in <module>
    from gimpfu import *
  File "/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/python/gimpfu.py", line 76, in <module>
    import gimp
ImportError: could not import gobject (error was: 'libffi.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory')
gimp: LibGimpBase-WARNING: gimp: gimp_wire_read(): error
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/gradients-save-as-css/gradients-save-as-css.py", line 25, in <module>
    from gimpfu import *
  File "/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/python/gimpfu.py", line 76, in <module>
    import gimp
ImportError: could not import gobject (error was: 'libffi.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory')
gimp: LibGimpBase-WARNING: gimp: gimp_wire_read(): error
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/foggify/foggify.py", line 19, in <module>
    from gimpfu import *
  File "/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/python/gimpfu.py", line 76, in <module>
    import gimp
ImportError: could not import gobject (error was: 'libffi.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory')
gimp: LibGimpBase-WARNING: gimp: gimp_wire_read(): error
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/file-openraster/file-openraster.py", line 20, in <module>
    from gimpfu import *
  File "/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/python/gimpfu.py", line 76, in <module>
    import gimp
ImportError: could not import gobject (error was: 'libffi.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory')
gimp: LibGimpBase-WARNING: gimp: gimp_wire_read(): error
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/colorxhtml/colorxhtml.py", line 24, in <module>
    import gimp
ImportError: could not import gobject (error was: 'libffi.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory')
gimp: LibGimpBase-WARNING: gimp: gimp_wire_read(): error
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user/.config/GIMP/2.10/plug-ins/tokenBlack.py", line 4, in <module>
    from gimpfu import *
  File "/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/python/gimpfu.py", line 76, in <module>
    import gimp
ImportError: could not import gobject (error was: 'libffi.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory')
gimp: LibGimpBase-WARNING: gimp: gimp_wire_read(): error
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user/.config/GIMP/2.10/plug-ins/blackout_token.py", line 4, in <module>
    from gimpfu import *
  File "/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/python/gimpfu.py", line 76, in <module>
    import gimp
ImportError: could not import gobject (error was: 'libffi.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory')
gimp: LibGimpBase-WARNING: gimp: gimp_wire_read(): error

@orlfman, it build perfectly on both of my Arch systems. Make sure your dependencies are up to date and there's absolutely nothing jank about your install. I don't maintain the source code, all I do is maintain the PKGBUILD. Sorry.

failing to build here on arch. https://pastebin.com/1rcwyDBR

@mikegb gegl is on version 4.30 on official Arch-repos. If you are on manjaro, try install gegl-git from the AUR, then try building again.

I'm unable to update (in pamac) eventually getting a version error in gegl (installed 0.4.28 from Official Repositories [extra]) requires >0.4.30

I updated the PKGBUILD to allow the latest autoconf; thanks fleger for telling me this.

Hi. 2.10.24 builds fine with autoconf>2.69.

sudo pacman -U https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/a/autoconf/autoconf-2.69-7-any.pkg.tar.zst

Do this to get the correct autoconf version from Arch repo archive.

@afontenot, you are correct. I downgraded to autoconf 2.69 and python2-gimp is compiling just fine. Thank you!