GdkPixBuf

["Michael Fothergill" <mikef20000 hotmail com>]

Dear Gnomes,

I have compiled the GdkPixBuf libraries on a secondary disk relative to the 
root partition.....

Most of the gnome library files seem to be in /usr/lib on the root 
partition.....

I tried to configure a program ToutDoux that needs this library but the 
configuration routine couldn't find the GdkPixBuf library in the directory 
where I had compiled it.....

I have been advised to try making a soft link to the directory from the 
/usr/lib directory if I understand it correctly.

The problem is I am not sure what is to be linked to what...

When you compile the GdkPixBuf source you get a million one intermediary 
files and quite few subdirectories and so I have difficulty figuring out 
which files are the actual library files that you are trying to create and 
which are the intermediary ones, and further more the exact location of the 
files.

Does anyone know the names of actual lib files you end up making for 
GdkPixBuf, not the intermediary ones, and in a default compilation what 
layer of subdirectories they are deposited in.

If I can't make the soft link work, then just dumbly copying or moving the 
library files themselves (not all the other junk) to e.g. /usr/lib
might make my ToutDoux (project management software) configure and then 
compile having found the GdkPixBuf library it needs.

I don't want to have to rewrite the entire OS just to compile a relatively 
ordinary piece of software....

Can anyone give me a fairly idiot proof way of getting it to work?

Perhaps if it were compiled on the root partition it would somehow 
automatically get created in the right library directory or magically be 
able to be easily found by a compiler....

But what I found is that after a time the root partition gets full and you 
think gee, well I guess I should just start compiling new software on my new 
disk, but it seems to be harder because you need more advanced farting 
around skills that allow compilers and the like to sniff out libraries and 
other goodies in remote parts of the file tree.............


I tried to put a path link in the .bash_profile files but that didn't do 
it...

Suggestions welcome.

All the best,

Michael Fothergill

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