Re: gtk+ 2.24 installation problems

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Fri, 2 Mar 2012, Roger Davis wrote:

> I am trying to install the latest version of GTK+ v2 on my CentOS 6.2
> system. The CentOS 6.2 install gave me v2.18, but I need some features
> that the GTK+ 2 reference manual says are available only in 2.20 or
> later.
>
> I downloaded the v2.24 source tarball from gtk.org, but when I did a
> './configure' it told me I needed to install newer versions of glib
> (>= 2.27.3), atk (>= 1.29.2) and gdk-pixbuf (>= 2.21.0).
>
> I then downloaded those sources and first built glib 2.27.93 with a
> simple './configure --prefix=/usr; make; make install;'. That went fine,
> but when I went on to the gdk-pixbuf build it seemed to think I still had
> my original glib package rather than the updated version which I had just
> built and installed. [...]

For one thing, you need to ensure that you're building 64-bit 
versions of the libraries if you want to overwrite the 
distro-supplied versions. I'm not familiar with CentOS but 
presumably this should be documented.

Secondly, there's no point in building/installing obsolete 
"unstable" versions of the libraries in question (e.g. glib 
2.27.93): use current stable versions, which for glib means 2.28.7 
or 2.30.2.

Third, consider the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH.

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Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University