--- Lytithwyn Eldohtar <lytithwyn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, recently I wanted to try the Lives video editing system, which requires > gtk 2.8. My current version is 2.6, so I tried to upgrade. > > I downloaded all of the pertinent tarballs: glib, atk, pango, cairo, and > gtk. I installed all the prerequisites, but when I ran configure for gtk, > it said "checking for pango flags...package pango not found". However, > `pkg-config --modversion pango` returns 1.14.3 just like it should. > Furthermore, applications like The Gimp began to fail as if it couldn't link > properly at run time. I had to uninstall the new version of pango and > reinstall the packaged version (1.8) that came with my distro, Slackware > 10.1. > > I have run into problems similar to this in the past, and have taken up > running configure with the parameter `prefix=/usr` to keep things from being > installed in /usr/local. This did not seem to help in this case. > > Any ideas? > > -- > chown lytithwyn:lytithwyn /* -R > You got chownzed. > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > Try my tool (see signature). It builds gtk+-2.8.20 out of the box (among other things) not overwriting anything in your system and even requiring root permission. --Sergei. Applications From Scratch: http://appsfromscratch.berlios.de/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
