I seem to be making progress with my issue. I manually copied the relevant files from /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/ to /usr/lib/pkgconfig/ and did export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib, despite /usr/local/lib being listed in /etc/ld.so.conf Things now seem to be moving onwards ... On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 10:58, Anthony DiSante wrote: > Sven Neumann wrote: > > Most binary packages install themselves to the /usr prefix, while > > source packages go to /usr/local. By not touching any files in the > > /usr prefix you can be sure that all files there are handled by the > > package manager. It's a simple rule that can be quite helpful. > > Good to know. How much of a consistent rule is that? > > >>I would rather have just one version installed, but I gather that > >>removing the old version is going to break some of my currently > >>installed apps. (As I said, I temporarily removed just a few files > >>from /usr/lib/ and already lots of apps won't run.) > > > > > > If you provided the new versions in /usr/local/lib and configured the > > linker correctly, your apps should have used the gtk+-2.4. Since this > > library is backward-compatible, this should just work. > > Well, gtk-2.4 isn't installed yet; it still won't make without error. (I > posted a message yesterday called "can't compile gtk+-2.4.0" that explains > the error.) > > >>from source, and glib/gtk is the only thing that consistently gives > >>me problems. I should be able to just have them installed in one > >>place, and upgrade them when they need it, without having to worry > >>about breaking all my apps or having to manage two separate > >>installations in two places. > > > > > > Why don't you just do that then? If you have the old versions > > installed from source in /usr, why do you put the new ones to > > /usr/local ? > > I never specify installation locations. Apparently the default used to be > /usr and now it's /usr/local. But if I now install 2.4.0 over top of the > old stuff at /usr, isn't that going to break things? > > -Anthony > http://nodivisions.com/ > _______________________________________________ > > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
