On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 01:58 -0400, Peter wrote: > Paul, > All the installs were the defaults for the installs. I didn't do > anything strange. > > I do not know what ABI stands for but I would like to know. > Application... bridging interface? That seems redundant. > > As I said, I do think I have conflicting versions of libraries > somewhere although I have tried to go through and ensure only one of > each. > But I think the real hint here is that its only certain applications > that fail and generally with the same issues. For instance, right now > I'm running firefox as it was installed from a package in the > enlightenment window manager as I compiled and installed after these > issues occurred. If you have re-compiled X and compiled gtk+ and its dependencies in the default prefix, that would have put them in the /usr/local prefix. At the same time you will have X from your distribution (any any other system software you tried to recompile) installed in either /usr or /usr/X11R6. When you try to launch a program it will be picking up the wrong libraries. There is no reason why you should have needed to recompile X. You could try deleting everything under /usr/local and get the pre-installed libraries from your distribution working again, if need be by reinstalling your distribution from CDROM/DVD. You then need to find out what dependencies for gtk+ your distribution does not have precompiled, and just install those from source. Note that if you install from source in /usr/local, you will have to make sure that /usr/local/lib is specified in /etc/ld.so.conf (and run ldconfig whenever you change /etc/ld.so.conf), and that PKG_CONFIG_PATH contains a reference to /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig. If it doesn't, you can deal with it by doing: export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig before running ./configure on that shell. It is quite unusual for a distribution not to come with gtk+ precompiled. Most do, even if they do not come with GNOME. Chris _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
