I got it. It was something about atk. I compiled and installed atk and it seems to have fixed anything. I'm still annoyed that none of the error messages mentioned atk. And I still wish I knew, just for my own edification how something like this could occur but I won't bother you all anymore. Thanks all the same. On 5/12/07, Peter <peterbohning@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What does ABI mean? > > What I would love is for someone to explain to me in the most > technical way possible why this is occurring. Not different versions > of libraries, obviously I have different versions of libraries > installed. And not some pkg-config thing because then the other > libraries shouldn't have compiled in the first place, that's what > pkg-config is for. Even if pkg-config had the wrong path, if the > libraries were the wrong version the configure script should have > choked. > > What's this thing with g_prgname? Why would such a variable not hold > the same string across two accesses? Is that because there's two > different interfaces to g_prgname and in my case those two different > interfaces are on libraries with incompatible versions? > > What's confusing to me is that the configure scripts in gtk and glib > find the right libraries, they compile with those libraries, but then > programs that use gtk and glib don't run with strange errors. Whether > or not I have two sets of libraries installed for the same software > seems irrelevant. > > I initially recompiled X because something needed the X headers and > the header packages from Xorg didn't match my libraries and at this > point dselect (debian package manager) wanted to replace my kernel > because it wasn't what was expected. I've compiled X before and it > wasn't and shouldn't be that much of a problem. > > But please tell me something interesting. Like that g_prgname thing, > how does that happen? > > > On 5/12/07, Chris Vine <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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
