Re: Compiling GTK, GLIB,PANGO ???

[Philip Withnall <philip tecnocode co uk>]

Hi,

You might want to use Jhbuild [1], which takes care of this
automatically, and helps you build everything straight from SVN.

[1] http://live.gnome.org/Jhbuild

Philip

On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 18:55 +0200, gtk rapp-informatik de wrote:
> Sorry I don't know if this is the right mailing list.
>
> I want to install the newest versions of GDK ; GLIB PANGO   etc.
> for testing purpose.  I do not want to overwrite the existing
> libraries of my SuSE 10.1 installation to be sure not to damage the 
> whole system
> I thought to do
> first I build glib with
> configure --prefix=/opt/glib
> this works fine
> than I tried to
> configure --prefix=/opt/gtk as an example
> now configure complains about the not up todate  glib version
> because I know  pkgconfig uses the PKG_CONFIG_PATH
> what can I do to force configure to test against the 
> /opt/glib/lib/pkgconfig  Path
>
> Suggestions to do wellcome
>
> mfg
> g.rapp