Re: 2.0.x and 2.2.x

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Ross Burton <ross burtonini com> writes:

> On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 11:28, Johan Dahlin wrote:
> > > I updated my RH8.0 with Gtk2.2.0 and friends(Glib, Atk
> > > and Pango), and also Gtkmm2.1.2 from the sources. 
> > > Consequently, several Gnome programs (even the
> > > terminal window) crashes when I restart. I have no
> > > troubles in making and installing the packages. Any
> > > idea about that? 
> > 
> > Did you upgrade libgnome[ui] and libbonobo[ui] too?
> > (and all their dependencies)
> > 
> > I know that glade crashes on startup unless you upgrade all the gnome
> > libraries.
> 
> The issue is that libgnomeui 2.0.x creates an abstract widget, which is
                               ^^^^^

Actually, if I recall correctly, the latest in the 2.0.x series also
fixes the bug in question here, so upgrading to 2.1.x is not
strictly necessary.

> not valid. GTK+ 2.2.0 actually disallows this and this often results in
> crashes due to null pointers.
> 
> Upgrading libgnomeui to 2.1.x will fix this.

Regards,
                                        Owen