Installing GIMP from SVN

I've been a great fan o the GIMP for many years now. The problem is that I'm not patient enough to wait until the new features apear on he stable versions so I've been running 2 versions of GIMP on my computer: the debian packaged one and one compiled from the project SVN repository.

Below is my bash script to install/update. If you want to download the shell script I have uploaded it here.

#!/bin/bash

co_compile_install()
{
 DIR=$1
 PARAMS=$2
 COMMAND=$3
 echo "Installing $DIR"

 # bash check if directory exists
 if [ -d $DIR ]; then
  echo "Directory exists - UPDATING"
  cd $DIR
  svn update
 else 
  echo "Directory does not exists - CHECKING OUT"
  svn checkout "http://svn.gnome.org/svn/$DIR/trunk" "$DIR"
  cd $DIR
 fi

 if [ -n $COMMAND ]
 then
  eval $COMMAND
 fi

 ./autogen.sh
 ./configure --prefix=/opt/gimp-svn $PARAMS && make &&  make install
 cd ..
}

apt-get install automake1.7

# GLIB
co_compile_install "glib" 

export PATH=/opt/gimp-svn/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gimp-svn/lib
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/gimp-svn/lib/pkgconfig

# GTK 
co_compile_install "gtk+" "--with-xinput=yes --disable-gtk-doc" "sed -r 's#(automake|aclocal)-1.7#\1#g' -i autogen.sh" 
co_compile_install "gtk+" "--with-xinput=yes --disable-gtk-doc"

# BABL
co_compile_install "babl" 

# GEGL
co_compile_install "gegl" "" "sed -r 's:#include :#include :g' -i operations/external/ff-load.c" 

export PATH=/opt/gimp-svn/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gimp-svn/lib
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/gimp-svn/lib/pkgconfig

# GIMP
co_compile_install "gimp" "--enable-gimp-remote --prefix=/opt/gimp-svn/ --program-suffix=-svn  --with-gimpdir=.gimp-svn"