I clicked on the help for the gimp and gimp told me it was unavailable saying something like "this is probably because gtkhtml was not installed when it was build." So I thought I would compile it with gtkhtml installed and see if that fixed. But it wouldn't compile after an abs makepkg. Following is the part of the output I thought was relevant:

gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"LibGimp\" -DGDK_MULTIHEAD_SAFE -DGTK_MULTIHEAD_SAFE -march=i686 -O2 -pipe -Wall -MT gimpexport.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/gimpexport.Tpo -c gimpexport.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/gimpexport.o
/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -march=i686 -O2 -pipe -Wall -o libgimpui-2.0.la -rpath /usr/lib -version-info 0:1:0 gimpui.lo gimpmenu.lo gimpbrushmenu.lo gimpfontmenu.lo gimpgradientmenu.lo gimppatternmenu.lo gimpexport.lo ./libgimp-2.0.la ../libgimpwidgets/libgimpwidgets-2.0.la ../libgimpcolor/libgimpcolor-2.0.la ../libgimpbase/libgimpbase-2.0.la ../libgimpmodule/libgimpmodule-2.0.la -Wl,--export-dynamic -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lpangoxft-1.0 -lpangox-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0
libtool: link: warning: `/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.0/../../..//libgobject-2.0.la' seems to be moved
libtool: link: warning: `/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.0/../../..//libgobject-2.0.la' seems to be moved
libtool: link: warning: `/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.0/../../..//libgtk-x11-2.0.la' seems to be moved
libtool: link: warning: `/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.0/../../..//libgobject-2.0.la' seems to be moved
libtool: link: warning: `/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.0/../../..//libgobject-2.0.la' seems to be moved
libtool: link: warning: `/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.0/../../..//libgobject-2.0.la' seems to be moved
libtool: link: warning: `/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.0/../../..//libgmodule-2.0.la' seems to be moved
gcc -shared .libs/gimpui.o .libs/gimpmenu.o .libs/gimpbrushmenu.o .libs/gimpfontmenu.o .libs/gimpgradientmenu.o .libs/gimppatternmenu.o .libs/gimpexport.o -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/var/abs/multimedia/gimp/src/gimp-2.0.1/libgimp/.libs -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/var/abs/multimedia/gimp/src/gimp-2.0.1/libgimpwidgets/.libs -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/var/abs/multimedia/gimp/src/gimp-2.0.1/libgimpcolor/.libs -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/var/abs/multimedia/gimp/src/gimp-2.0.1/libgimpbase/.libs -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/var/abs/multimedia/gimp/src/gimp-2.0.1/libgimpmodule/.libs -L/usr/lib -L/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.0/../../../ -L/var/abs/multimedia/gimp/src/gimp-2.0.1/libgimpbase/.libs -L/var/abs/multimedia/gimp/src/gimp-2.0.1/libgimpcolor/.libs ./.libs/libgimp-2.0.so ../libgimpwidgets/.libs/libgimpwidgets-2.0.so ../libgimpcolor/.libs/libgimpcolor-2.0.so ../libgimpbase/.libs/libgimpbase-2.0.so ../libgimpmodule/.libs/libgimpmodule-2.0.so /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so -lm /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so /usr/lib/libpangox-1.0.so /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so -ldl /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so -march=i686 -Wl,--export-dynamic -Wl,-soname -Wl,libgimpui-2.0.so.0 -o .libs/libgimpui-2.0.so.0.0.1
(cd .libs && rm -f libgimpui-2.0.so.0 && ln -s libgimpui-2.0.so.0.0.1 libgimpui-2.0.so.0)
(cd .libs && rm -f libgimpui-2.0.so && ln -s libgimpui-2.0.so.0.0.1 libgimpui-2.0.so)
creating libgimpui-2.0.la
(cd .libs && rm -f libgimpui-2.0.la && ln -s ../libgimpui-2.0.la libgimpui-2.0.la)
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/abs/multimedia/gimp/src/gimp-2.0.1/libgimp'
Making all in app
make[2]: Entering directory `/var/abs/multimedia/gimp/src/gimp-2.0.1/app'
Making all in paint-funcs
make[3]: Entering directory `/var/abs/multimedia/gimp/src/gimp-2.0.1/app/paint-funcs'
if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../.. -I../../app -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"Gimp-Paint-Funcs\" -DGDK_MULTIHEAD_SAFE -DGTK_MULTIHEAD_SAFE -march=i686 -O2 -pipe -Wall -MT paint-funcs.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/paint-funcs.Tpo" \
-c -o paint-funcs.o `test -f 'paint-funcs.c' || echo './'`paint-funcs.c; \
then mv -f ".deps/paint-funcs.Tpo" ".deps/paint-funcs.Po"; \
else rm -f ".deps/paint-funcs.Tpo"; exit 1; \
fi
paint-funcs.c:4484: error: conflicting types for 'initial_region'
paint-funcs.h:359: error: previous declaration of 'initial_region' was here
paint-funcs.c:4484: error: conflicting types for 'initial_region'
paint-funcs.h:359: error: previous declaration of 'initial_region' was here
make[3]: *** [paint-funcs.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/abs/multimedia/gimp/src/gimp-2.0.1/app/paint-funcs'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/abs/multimedia/gimp/src/gimp-2.0.1/app'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/abs/multimedia/gimp/src/gimp-2.0.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2
==> ERROR: Build Failed. Aborting...