Re: Gnome/GTK

["Geoffrey L. Brimhall" <brimhall@pobox.com>]

I ran into the same problem, and found a solution, but it was a bit of work.
I'm hoping someone out there knows a cleaner solution.

I wasn't sure if I should email this as a bug, but here's the problem inso much
as I could figure out:

Basically there are two problems (stemming from one): It stems from the fact
that the gtk has two running versions - a stable, currently running at 1.0.5,
and a non-stable development running at 1.1.x.

1. I happened to have both 1.0.5 and 1.1.x installed on my system. This is the
first part that really confused building with gnome because they require the
1.1.x now, but for some reason my /usr/lib/libgtk.so and libgtk.so.1 pointed to
libgtk.so.1.0.5 and not to libgtk-1.1.so. So first I had to re-link libgtk.so
to point to the 1.1.x versions of the gtk. There were many other libraries
which also had this problem (glib, gdk).
2. /usr/bin/gtk-config was configured to report that I was running 1.0.5
binaries and not 1.1.x. I had to update this file.

I can understand that the above two problems are not fixed even if you just
install the main/libs/libgtk1.1_1.1.1-1.deb, because I can see the adventerous
user who is not a developer, but that want's to try out gnome.

However, what I don't understand is not having the above two problems fixed if
main/devel/libgtk1.1-dev_1.1.1-1.deb is installed, because this should imply a
person is wanting to do gtk development with the latest stuff.


My two cents.

Geoff

On 30-Aug-98 Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 30 Aug 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote:
>> 
>>      *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log
>> for the
>>      *** exact error that occured. 
> 
> 
> Try doing this. If you don't understand config.log send a copy to the
> list (gnome-list@gnome.org is probably a better choice than debian-user
> though).
> 
> Remember that Gnome is development software and is not ready for end
> users. So don't expect miracles...
> 
> Havoc
> 
> 
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E-Mail: Geoffrey L. Brimhall <brimhall@pobox.com>
Date: 03-Sep-98
Time: 20:41:21

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