Re: Problem with installing GTK+-2.0.0 on Fedora Core 6

[Vlad Volodin <vest 84 gmail com>]

Hello,

What is the purpose of your update? Do you want to refresh a widget,
or anything else?

Vlad Volodin



2009/5/11 Adeel Malik <adeelmalik78 yahoo com>:
> Hi, I was wondering how to update the gtk_main_thread function after a fixed time interval (in 
> milliseconds)Âas g_timer_add function provides a quick solution to that. Could someone suggest how to go 
> about it ?.
>
> Thanks,
> Adeel
>
> --- On Sat, 5/9/09, Ardhan Madras <ajhwb knac com> wrote:
>
> From: Ardhan Madras <ajhwb knac com>
> Subject: Re: Problem with installing GTK+-2.0.0 on Fedora Core 6
> To: adeelmalik78 yahoo com
> Cc: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
> Date: Saturday, May 9, 2009, 7:49 PM
>
> One of GTK+ dependency is GLib, each GTK+ version has it's GLib version
> dependency too, if you try to compile a newer GTK+ version in a system that has
> not meet it's minimal requirement of GLib version then they will complain.
>
> You tried to update GLib on your distro using a package manager, you will got
> nothing to do because your distro will not broke all dependency that it already
> made. Moving from 2.4.0 to 2.12.3 is not trivial, this will break many
> applications that already installed, so they must have to update all
> applications to meet the new dependency. Distributor tend to release a new
> distro version rather than rebuild and update applications in the their current
> version.
>
> g_timer_add()? i don't know if this was a obsolete function, but i think
> there are a lot way to write codes such this function does. I can't see a
> reason why you should move to a version of GTK+ because of this function!
>
> --- ajhwb
>
>
> --- adeelmalik78 yahoo com wrote:
>
> From: Adeel Malik <adeelmalik78 yahoo com>
> To: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
> Subject: Problem with installing GTK+-2.0.0 on Fedora Core 6
> Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 21:13:24 -0700 (PDT)
>
>
> Hi All,
> ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ I am doing application development on Fedora Core 6 Linux
> machine which had GTK version 1.2.1 already installed. I needed to use
> g_timer_add gnomeÂfunction in my gtk application which doesn't seem to be
> supported on this version. So i tried to install the newer version of GTK+-2.0.0
> from the gtk.org web page.
> Once I copied tar.gz file and tried to install the app. by running the
> './configure' script, the insatallation process stopped at the following
> error messages:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0...
> *** 'pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0' returned 2.12.3, but GLIB
> (2.4.0)
> *** was found! If pkg-config was correct, then it is best
> *** to remove the old version of GLib. You may also be able to fix the error
> *** by modifying your LD_LIBRARY_PATH enviroment variable, or by editing
> *** /etc/ld.so.conf. Make sure you have run ldconfig if that is
> *** required on your system.
> *** If pkg-config was wrong, set the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH
> *** to point to the correct configuration files
> no
> configure: error:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> ÂI treid to update the glib library by running:
>
> 'yum update glib'Â or 'yum install glib' but it appeared that
> kernel couldn't find the match and issued the following messages:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up repositories
> core 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
> updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
> extras 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Could not find update match for glib
> No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> I was wondering whether the problem is with the 'yum' package as it is
> unable to find the requestedÂGlib library. Since the whole point of installing
> the new version of GTK was to be able to use the 'g_timer_add'
> function, can some one suggest if it is possible to use this function with the
> GTK 1.2.1 version. If not, can someone point out how can I fix the installation
> error if GTK+-2.0.0.
>
> Thanks,
> Adeel
>
>
>
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