Re: [gtk-list] Re: trouble installing latest GTK+ 1.1.6

[Bernd Schmidt <bernd ecemail newcastle edu au>]

Evan Lawrence wrote:

> I'm relatively certain that, for what you're trying to do, you need to set
> prefix to /home/collpits2/visitors/bernd, and LD_LIBRARY_PATH to
> /home/collpits2/visitors/bernd/lib instead. Somebody please correct me if
> I'm wrong - otherwise, hope this helps.
>

Dear Evan,

thanks for your advice.

I tried to install glib and gtk in the way you suggested.
Unfortunately the same error occurred again :(

So I'm still after a good proposal.
Perhaps you or somebody else has another helpful idea!

Bye, and thanks

Bernd


>
> --
> Evan Lawrence
>
> On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Bernd Schmidt wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have problems installing the new  GTK+ 1.1.6
> >
> > I installed glib 1.1.6 successfully in  a subdiretory of my home
> > directory, because I haven't got any write permissions  for /usr/local
> > So I used  --prefix= /home/collpits2/visitors/bernd/glib-1.1.6    as an
> > argument of configure, where /home/collpits2/visitors/bernd is my home
> > directory and glib-1.1.6 is the desired glib directory.
> >
> > I changed LD_LIBRARY_PATH to
> > /home/collpits2/visitors/bernd/glib-1.1.6/lib
> > and added /home/collpits2/visitors/bernd/glib-1.1.6/bin to my path.
> >
> > So far the glib installation was no problem.
> >
> > Then I tried to install GTK+ 1.1.6 after rebooting my system.
> > I used the same configure command: configure
> > --prefix=/home/collpits2/visitors/bernd/gtk+-1.1.6,
> > where gtk+-1.1.6 is the desired gtk directory.
> > The configure script terminated with the following error message:
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > checking for extra flags for POSIX compliance... none needed
> > checking for glib-config...
> > /tmp_mnt/nfs/collpits2/visitors/bernd/glib-1.1.6/bin/glib-config
> > checking for GLIB - version >= 1.1.6... 24239:./conftest: /sbin/loader:
> > Fatal Error: cannot map libglib-1.1.so 1no
> > *** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why...
> > *** The test program compiled, but did not run. This usually means
> > *** that the run-time linker is not finding GLIB or finding the wrong
> > *** version of GLIB. If it is not finding GLIB, you'll need to set your
> > *** LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, or edit /etc/ld.so.conf to
> > point
> > *** to the installed location  Also, make sure you have run ldconfig if
> > that
> > *** is required on your system
> > ***
> > *** If you have an old version installed, it is best to remove it,
> > although
> > *** you may also be able to get things to work by modifying
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> > ***
> > *** If you have a RedHat 5.0 system, you should remove the GTK package
> > that
> > *** came with the system with the command
> > ***
> > ***    rpm --erase --nodeps gtk gtk-devel configure: error:
> > *** GLIB 1.1.6 or better is required. The latest version of GLIB
> > *** is always available from ftp://ftp.gtk.org.
> >
> >
> >
> > But as described above glib1.1.6 is installed and LD_LIBRARY_PATH  is
> > set!
> >
> > The contents of my directory
> > /home/collpits2/visitors/bernd/glib-1.1.6/lib  are as follows:
> >
> > drwxr-xr-x   3 bernd    visitor      512 Dec  9 19:03 .
> > drwxr-xr-x  11 bernd    visitor     3072 Dec  9 18:23 ..
> > drwxr-xr-x   3 bernd    visitor      512 Dec  9 18:23 glib
> > -rw-r--r--   1 bernd    visitor   458752 Dec  9 18:23
> > libglib-1.1.so.6.0.0
> > -rw-r--r--   1 bernd    visitor  1246900 Dec  9 18:23 libglib.a
> > -rw-r--r--   1 bernd    visitor      502 Dec  9 18:23 libglib.la
> > lrwxrwxrwx   1 bernd    visitor       20 Dec  9 18:23 libglib.so
> > ->libglib-1.1.so.6.0.0
> > -rw-r--r--   1 bernd    visitor    57344 Dec  9 18:23
> > libgmodule-1.1.so.6.0.0
> > -rw-r--r--   1 bernd    visitor    44574 Dec  9 18:23 libgmodule.a
> > -rw-r--r--   1 bernd    visitor      517 Dec  9 18:23 libgmodule.la
> >
> >
> > Then I accomplished to run configure successfully by renaming
> > libgmodule-1.1.so.6.0.0 to libgmodule-1.1.so and by renaming
> > libglib-1.1.so.6.0.0 to libglib-1.1.so
> >
> > But after typing 'make' thousands of warnings appeared and finally
> > compilation interrupted with exit 1.
> >
> > Is there anybody out there who can help me?
> > Many thanks in advance!!!!
> >
> >
> > Bernd
> >
> > --
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> > ! Bernd Schmidt
> > ! E-mail: bernd@ee.newcastle.edu.au
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