On Friday 13 October 2006 11:48, Murray Cumming wrote: > More importantly, the correct answer is almost always "Use your distro's > packages". > > Building from source is difficult and requires you to know what you are > doing, and requires you to enjoy the problems a bit. With GNOME itself that is wise advice, as its (now undocumented) dependencies and build order make it a pig to install from source. I have some scripts to do this which require work every time a new minor number revision comes out. I know that Tor is mainly concerned with Windows (about which I know little so far as concerns GTK+), but I have to say that I have never had any difficulty building GTK+ on unix-like OSs from the early 1.2 days. It has few dependencies, no obvious "gotchas" and its build order is predictable. Most build problems are nothing to do with GTK+ but reflect the fact that the poster is probably new to such OSs and doesn't understand how to compile a program or library of any kind and he happens to have first tried with GTK+. I wish though that OS distributions included /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig in the PKG_CONFIG_PATH by default. That seems to account for at least half the problems from people new to compiling libraries. Chris _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
