Re: libgtk-dev and libgtk1.1-dev

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE>]

Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> >>>>> "Martin" == Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE> writes:
> 
>     Martin> gnotepad+ does not work with gtk 1.1 while many
>     Martin> application that come with Debian are linked against 1.1.
>     Martin> Thus you can't compile gnotepad+ on that machine.
> 
>     Ben> Sure, but you can always remove libgtk1.1-dev and install
>     Ben> libgtk-dev.
> 
>     Martin> Won't it hurt if I leave libgtk1.1 installed?
> 
> No; that's like leaving libc5 and libc6 installed. It's no big deal.

Hmm, so I have 1.1 installed as well as 1.0-dev.  Now if I compile,
I compile against 1.0.  So it's dynamically linked against 1.0.
But 1.0 is not installed and even conflicts with 1.1.

Something's wrong here...

Regards,

	Joey

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