--- Tristan Van Berkom <tvb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 15:25 -0600, Warren Fenlon wrote: > > Hi. I have been working on a glade project and in the process of > > coding the callbacks, I discovered that my version of glib was old â?? > > something like 2.1? One of the functions I need was added in 2.8, and > > after looking at the recent announcements, I decided to get version > > 2.12.4 (not TOO bleeding edge and seemed stable enough not having any > > updates for > 2 months). So I downloaded the tar.gz, expanded it, ran > > configure (all defaults), and make/make install. That all went > > smoothly. I realized since I was using the defaults on configure that > > I was changing my prefix from /usr to /usr/local. I considered this > > to be a GOOD thing since if I messed up my system that I could go back > > to my previous glib incarnation. I thought to myself that all I would > > need to do after that was to update my Makefile to include these > > different glib dirs, but that did not work. My compile is failing to > > find a function that is in 2.12, but not in 2.1. So my questions are: > > 1. Is there a way to safely take 2.12.4 Glib for a test drive without > > overwriting my older Glib? 2. Can I possibly just reconfigure GTK > > and/or the other dependent libs to recognize my new Glib version? > > Typically you would want to update your system glib using your > package manager (synaptic ?). > > If you want to install a tarball by hand in an optional prefix, > thats what you did. > > I usually write a simple little script like this to build & test > stuff in an optional prefix: > =============================== > PREFIX=/opt/gnome > PATH=$PREFIX/bin:$PATH > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PREFIX/lib > PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig > > export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH PKG_CONFIG_PATH > =============================== > > And then feeding in /opt/gnome to the --prefix arg of configure. > > You should be able to test your glib in /usr/local by simply > typing "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib ./myprogram". > > Cheers, > -Tristan > > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > I can send you the most up to date version of my tool (see signature), it will build you 'glib' in a local directory, not requiring root permission and not overwriting anything at system level. All you'll have to do will be to use a command more or like this one: ~/AppsFromScratch/20061104/bin/build.pl -make_like -check_with_ldd -targets_to_build glib 1>build.log 2>&1 & . The tool downloads sources from the net. You can also build gtk+ and glade. --Sergei. P.S. I have just rebuilt glib-2.12.6, gtk+-2.10.6. 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
