(forw) gtk thinking it's older than it is?

[Damo <adagio@effect.net.au>]

hi. i've been having some problems with gtk and some libraries. i asked the
gtk list but i was directed here for hope that someone here might
understand/known what's going on.

if anything could help that would be great :)

- damo


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Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 13:09:02 +1100
From: Damo <adagio@effect.net.au>
To: gtk-list@redhat.com

hey there,

i've been browsing thru the archives of this list, and of the documentation i
could find on the development versions of gtk+glib. my problem is more of a
'it shouldn't do that', than a show stopper. glib compiles and installs fine.
gtk compiles and installs fine, too, as far as i can tell. i generally compile
all my applications again with a new version of gtk, so before i install gtk i
remove all the old libraries, having no need for them anymore. that is:

{libgtk*,libgdk.*,libgmodule*,libglib*,libgthread*}

maybe there's more but those are the ones i know :)


anyway, when i compile a new application with my brand new gtk (current cvs
version atm, so 1.11 is a rough estimate), it compiles, and links.. fine. but
when i go to run it.. i get this:

$ pwd&&./testgtk
/home/adagio/gtk+/gtk

Gtk-ERROR **: libgtk-1.1.so.9: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
aborting...
Aborted
$ 

as you can see, not even the example programs will run.

if i link the current versions back to 9, doing something along the lines of

ln -sf /usr/local/lib/libgtk-1.1.so.11.0.0 /usr/local/lib/libgtk-1.1.so.9

then everything appears to work fine.

but should i have to do that? and if not, what have i done wrong?

anything that could open my eyes to this would be great.

thank you,
 damo


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