Re: rpm gnome libs .99.6 problems

[bob kehs ksd org]

Thanks for the help. That would explain it.

I do have one other problem. Alot of the tarballs dont seem to
like gtk 1.1.15 too well. Could someone reliece new versions that do work?

On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, James Henstridge wrote:

> I had a similar problem to this when updating my personal imlib RPMS.
> Here is a summary of the problem:
> 
> Suppose you are compiling a library and some programs from a package, and
> currently have an old version of the library on the system that has some
> shlib dependencies in it (eg libgdk_imlib.so.1.9.0 may have a dependency
> on libgdk-1.1.so.12 on your system).  Now when you compile the new version
> of imlib, libtool will make sure that all the programs in the imlib
> (ie imlib_config) link against the correct libraries (say
> libgdk_imlib.so.1.9.2 and libg[dt]k-1.1.so.15).  Now when you do an "ldd
> imlib_config", you will see that the dynamic linker chooses the already
> installed version of libgdk_imlib, which in turn adds libgdk-1.1.so.12 to
> the link list.
> 
> When the new version of libgdk_imlib is actually installed, the link list
> will look correct, but when RPM is building the package, the incorrect one
> is used giving an incorrect dependency list.
> 
> The two options are to uninstall the old version while building the new
> one, or to build and install the new version from tarball before building
> the RPM.
> 
> I hope this helps explain the wierd behaviour.
> 
> James Henstridge.
> 
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> On Fri, 5 Feb 1999 bob@kehs.ksd.org wrote:
> 
> > rpm is picking up that it needs gtk 1.1.13 and gtk 1.1.14.
> > I only have gtk 1.1.14 on my system. Any ideas why it would be doing this?
> > 
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