OK, after enough cross-posting madness due to my silly mistake earlier (mailing gtkmm-list rather than gtk-list), hopefully this will put this thread back where it belongs. On Aug 8, 2006, at 2:53 PM, Michael Ekstrand wrote: > On Aug 8, 2006, at 9:43 AM, Bill Cunningham wrote: >> Ok I used reply all this time. :) The options at compile time >> that I >> ususally use is really only --prefix=/usr maybe some other switches >> with --x-includes if that option is available. I tried compiling >> all this >> stuff without XFree and I don't think it worked because I'm >> assuming XFree >> provides frame buffer support. I want to compile xxms and firefox >> and maybe >> work on some basic packages of the gnome desktop. > > A few things: one, you do need to build with XFree - otherwise it > won't do anything useful. Also, installing to /usr is stepping on > your distro's domain, and quite susceptible to problems. Installing > to /usr/local puts stuff in a location the distro has actually > reserved (or should reserve) for you to use for your own software. > > IIRC, XMMS uses GTK 1.2. You'll need to install that separately. > beep-media-player is based on the XMMS source code and does use GTK2 > though. > > If you install pkg-config and all the glib/gtk stuff to the same > prefix, as long as pkg-config is in your PATH, you won't have any > problems with needing to set PKG_CONFIG_PATH (unless you somehow > override the default pkg-config search path. > > - Michael > _______________________________________________ > gtkmm-list mailing list > gtkmm-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
