On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 11:47:49PM -0800, Hadron wrote: > The problem now is not that pkg_config reports the higher version is > there but the one found is the old one. One can expect this since the > shared libaries I have locally are not on the path. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2006-December/msg00113.html was sent to this very same mailing list only a few days ago. > How do I fix this properly for the ./configure state? It seems to me > that if I edit /etc/ld.so.conf and run "sudo ldconfig" then I will > update the system versions too! ./configure doesnt have an "rpath" > option. No, definitely don't do this. > How to tell my "test program" and others (such as atk above) to use my > local shared libraries which contain debugging information without > changing the system? I'm sure it is staring me in the face, but I can > not see the wood for the trees at the moment. I suppose you are attempting this on GNU/Linux, so please see ld.so(8) where all the variables controlling dynamic linker behaviour and its library search alogrithm are explained. Yeti -- Whatever. _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list