Re: final gtk+maverick battles

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Sun, 16 Feb 2014, Bric wrote:

> On 02/14/2014 02:54 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 4:52 AM, Bric <bric flight us> wrote:
> > > > GTK on MacOSX requires a few dependencies to build and those script
> > > > download them all and build them with clang default compiler without too
> > > > many issues.
> > > >
> > > > https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show//Projects/GTK+/OSX/Building
> My old system was, indeed, trashed.  An accidental re-boot proved that it 
> wasn't going into GUI mode anymore.  Thus, I upgraded, and am now on Ubuntu 
> 12.
> Nonetheless, I run ./configure in gtk+ git, and I am still getting unmet 
> dependencies [...]
That should not be surprising. Why do you need the current 
("unstable") development version of gtk+ rather than just the latest 
stable release (at present, 3.10.7)?
In the unstable development versions (with odd minor version 
numbers, such as 3.11) you have no guarantee of API or ABI 
stability, and you'll likely find that unstable gtk+ depends on 
unstable glib, pango, atk and so on.
Taking this path is quite likely to bork your system again, in the 
sense that the GUI supplied with *buntu will stop working since it's 
built against a potentially incompatible gtk stack.
Allin Cottrell