Marco Vittorini Orgeas <marco <at> mavior.eu> writes: > > Hi, > I need to compile a software which requires a recent version of the GTK > library. > Being on debian stable, I am in the process of compiling from source the > gtk library which doesn't have a large set a of dependencies(just his > glib). My wish is to keep things well contained, so as suggested here > http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/unstable/gtk-building.html I am > compiling all the code under /opt (/opt/gtk /opt/glib). > When I try to compile the software which need those libraries I seem to be > just not able to tell gcc that it needs to compile against libraries under > /opt and not against the system ones under /usr/lib. > > The strange fact is that the configure command execute without any > problems,but then when I issue the "make" command it complains about > "undefined reference to `gtk_orientable_set_orientation'" > sign that is using system old gtk library. > > I tried also to export ,before issue the configure command, adjusted > CPPFLAGS,LDFLAGS,PKG_CONFIG_PATH pointing them respectively to folders > under /opt/gtk/ /opt/glib etc...but it seems to have no effect (I read in > another post that: "LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not needed when later running the > built software due to libtool's use of rpaths"). > > So,what is the right way to tell gcc (make) to use one or another library > path when your system has two installed, one of which under /usr/lib and > so will probably be used by default ? > > Also is there any recommended way to act in situations like that, when you > need a different version of a lib , and want to keep the system's one to > prevent breaking the system ? Put all in an isolate folder under /home or > /opt would be enough ? > > At run-time are there any risks that the software choose the wrong .so > objects to load in memory from the system path? If it is compiled against > the right path, even if shared I think not.... > > Thank you for any clarification, > > Keep me CC'ed please, > > Marco Vittorini Orgeas > At the moment I'm reading this thread here http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.gtk+.general/20951 which could be relatively connected to my problems and I admit that it's just not making a lot of sense. So,just for simplify the argument,at the end of the story I would reformulate the question: I need to install in parallel to my system gtk "old" libraries a newer version of gtk libraries, because I need to compile against it a software: how can I proceed to let only "that" software using the newer libraries without messing all the system and so maintaining all separate ? I would be very glad if you can provide some simple/short example making the assumption that for example I would install the newer versions of GTK under /opt. I hope the question is a bit more clearer now. thanks again _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
