GTK+ 1.1 Experiences

[Jeff Licquia <jeff luci org>]

Caveat: The proximity of cluefulness to the writer is left as an exercise 
for the reader. :-)

After finally getting GNOME to build on my machine, I was experiencing 
some problems that, I assumed, were due to the age of my checkout 
(gnome-session at 100% CPU, etc.).  So, I checked out the latest source.

I immediately started getting problems with my build script.  (FWIW, it 
runs autogen.sh, make, and make install in a row for all of the gnome 
dirs, adding the --with-gtk option to mico.)  Imlib was having problems 
building right, and mico wouldn't configure.

I found that GTK+ had advanced to version 1.1 in CVS, and poked around.  
Sure enough, my lib tree (I install to /opt/gnome) included gtk and glib 
with -1.1 in the name, but no gdk!  "make distclean" in my gtk+ directory 
cleaned that problem up.

After this, though, I was still having problems; config.log didn't report 
any problems this time.  Checked my installed software, found some old 
RPMS that hadn't been removed.  After purging my RPMs, configure was 
happy, and my script is now purring away (in mico by now - everything 
looks OK).

Moral: purge your old junk before starting development. :-)  Hope this 
helps anyone with GTK+ 1.1 problems.