Hi, > On 2003.10.20 21:40 Michael Torrie wrote: > > > The problems you are experiencing are not GTK problems per se. They are > > build environment problems. Michael is right. > My distribution was originally Red Hat 6.0, now Red Hat 6.2. Maybe you have some problems because you have an old distribution and many software evolved since. If you need to try newer software without sacrifying the stability of your original sofware, I'd suggest making use of the $prefix stuff. For everything you compile yourself or you want to try, use a special prefix (e.g. $HOME/tests/). If you're satisfied, recompile with a /usr/local prefix so the users will benefit from newer versions. There will always be the distribution specific software in /usr. /usr should be the most stable versions. > Compiler: egcs-2.91.66 > Binutils: (sorry, forgot how to check that!) as --version (or gas) > ldd: ldd (GNU libc) 2.1.3 > pkg-config: 0.15.0 > glib: 1.2.10 and 2.2 > atk: 1.0.1a > pango: 1.0.1a > > The glib 2.2 I compiled from source. I'd suggest again to use newer software (and compiler?). The currently release stable versions are: glib 2.2.3 Atk 1.2.0 pango 1.2.5 gtk 2.2.4 Yours seem quite old I'd first try to use the distribution software packaging method. They correcly handle dependencies. Recent distro package management software are really user friendly (huge difference between Ditro 6.x series and the current ones) If you want to compile the software yourself, take care about dependencies, and especially prefix. Problems arise in general only if you install some libs in some prefix while the other ones which depend on them on other prefixes. In that case, you have to know how to use LD_LIBRARY_PATH, LDFLAGS, CPPFLAGS PKG_CONFIG_PATH. For example, I installed my SuSE 6.2 few years ago. But in fact, I always compile source myself, and as I always install stuff in the default prefix when compiling (/usr/local), I only need to do ./configure make make install (as root). but also, I stick to the quite recent version of each major library and development tools. Experience has shown that recent stable versions are 99% really stable. > Note that I'm installing GTK 2 along with GTK 1 (the original) > per several "experienced" users' request, because we wanted to > test some of our GTK programs with GTK 2. Gtk1.2x and Gtk2.2.x can coexist without any problem even if you install them using the same prefix. You can consider them as unrelated libraries. -- Melvin Hadasht _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
