--- 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? > I think your expectations are too much idealistic. For example, I've got tired filing bugs against 'configure' of various targets - the typical problem in case of my AppsFromScratch being 'configure' is OK, but 'make' fails. I simply learned how to work around such problems. As I have already suggested, if you want to non-destructively experiment, restore your system using your distro's means, and compile and install newer versions "aside", i.e. do not install anything into system (/usr/..., /bin/..., /lib/...) directories. Regards, Sergei. Applications From Scratch: http://appsfromscratch.berlios.de/ ____________________________________________________________________________________Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids. http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=summer+activities+for+kids&cs=bz _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
