Re: gtk+ 1.0 vs 1.1

[Simon Murcott <simonmu optimation co nz>]

On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Matthew Ross Davis wrote:

> Is it possible to have 1.1.* libraries installed to play with new GNOME stuff
> and install 1.0.* libraries for GIMP? Anyone doing this?

Of course it is possible.

The best way to do this is to instal gimp into it's own directory (and 
also libg[td]k.so.1.0*) but leave it out of your path and ld.so.conf.

Then use a shell "wrapper" to launch it.

For example if gimp was installed in /opt/gimp:

#!/bin/sh
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gimp/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
PATH=/opt/gimp/bin:${PATH}
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH PATH

exec /opt/gimp/bin/gimp


Place this somewhere in your path and call it "gimp".

Simple really.

Regards

Simon Murcott

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