(this is a work in progress) This can be done after building from source Create the /tmk/skl symlink as usualy, removing it first if Gimp.app already created it. Code: mkdir -p /tmp/skl cd /tmp/skl ln -s ~/src/macports/Gimp.app Gimp.app cd - Then install docbook from macports Code: sudo /tmp/skl/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/bin/port install docbook-xsl sudo /tmp/skl/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/bin/port install docbook-xml-4.3 Set-up environment variables so GIMP is found Code: export PATH=$PATH:/tmp/skl/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/bin export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/tmp/skl/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/lib/pkgconfig export GIMPTOOL=/tmp/skl/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gimptool-2.0 Download help-files source archive from ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/help/. Unarchive it then go inside it. Code: cd path/to/gimp-help-2.4.x In the help files, open and edit the file stylesheets/profile.xsl. Replace : Code: <xsl:import href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/profiling/profile.xsl" /> with : Code: <xsl:import href="/tmp/skl/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/share/xsl/docbook-xsl/profiling/profile.xsl" /> Then it's time to build. Code: export XML_CATALOG_FILES=$HOME/src/macports/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/etc/xml/catalog ./configure --with-xsl=$HOME/src/macports/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/share/xsl/docbook-xsl/ --enable-build make ... may take up to a few hours ... Then we'll change /tmp/skl to yet another location before installing so we can grab all the files it installs in a seperate location. Code: rm /tmp/skl/Gimp.app mkdir -p ~/Desktop/gimp-help-files/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/ mkdir -p /tmp/skl cd /tmp/skl ln -s ~/Desktop/gimp-help-files/Gimp.app Gimp.app cd - mkdir -p /tmp/skl/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/share/gimp/2.0/help/de/ mkdir -p /tmp/skl/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/share/gimp/2.0/help/en/ mkdir -p /tmp/skl/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/share/gimp/2.0/help/es/ mkdir -p /tmp/skl/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/share/gimp/2.0/help/fr/ mkdir -p /tmp/skl/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/share/gimp/2.0/help/it/ mkdir -p /tmp/skl/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/share/gimp/2.0/help/ko/ mkdir -p /tmp/skl/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/share/gimp/2.0/help/nl/ mkdir -p /tmp/skl/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/share/gimp/2.0/help/no/ mkdir -p /tmp/skl/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/share/gimp/2.0/help/pl/ mkdir -p /tmp/skl/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/share/gimp/2.0/help/ru mkdir -p /tmp/skl/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/share/gimp/2.0/help/sv/ make install done! You can then package the files from "~/Desktop/gimp-help-files/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/" into the help-files installer available in our SVN repository (more info in the readme over there)