On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:20:11PM -0400, Chad A Daelhousen wrote: > At Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 03:19:40PM -0400, Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS wrote: > > > If you're so unsure about its location that you're resorting to 'find', you > > > just bought yourself a 'find /'. Yes, over *all* the file systems. > > > > Not really. You just need to check /opt /usr/include and /lib > > /usr/lib, /usr/local/lib, $(PREFIX), $LDFLAGS, anything nonstandard in > /etc/ld.so.conf on Linux... and that's just for libraries, not includes. > The cure is worse than the disease. > I disagree. The cure is the cure. And /etc/ld.so.conf is easy enough to cat, is it not? > GTK+ simply expects anyone compiling from source to give it a clean > system to run on. If things were broken before it arrived, that can > hardly be blamed on GTK+ itself. > And this statement is a a statement of acceptence of incompetency and negligence which has plagued gnome for a LONG LONG time. The ability to upgrade the sources through a constitant use of defaults for autoconf is ESSENTIAL to the long term usage of any large software package in which the user is to become dependent on. Ruben -- __________________________ Brooklyn Linux Solutions __________________________ DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS http://fairuse.nylxs.com http://www.mrbrklyn.com - Consulting http://www.inns.net <-- Happy Clients http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive or stories and articles from around the net http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/downtown.html - See the New Downtown Brooklyn.... 1-718-382-0585 _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
