Re: Glib + glib-config

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

jerrud <jerlin@surfcity.net> writes:
> Hi,
> I`m installing GTK+ 1.2.8 and in order to do that i have to install glib
> 1.2.8.
> 
> My problem rests in that I have glib 1.2.6 installed from my
> distrobution`s install. (I`m running Storm Linux, Debian 2.2 based)
> 
> So my question to you guys is:: How do i install over this older glib
> version (or uninstall, if need be) in order to install GTK+ ?
>

dpkg --remove glib. But it's going to complain about lots of broken
dependencies.
 
> The error that ./configure produces is (from GTK)::
> 
> glib-config --version returned 1.2.8, but GLIB (1.2.6) was found!
> 
> Then it procedes to tell me how to fix this problem, but I do not know
> how to do so...
> 
> All help appreciated
> 

If you're just developing against 1.2.8, and want to keep using
packages for applications, you want to leave 1.2.6 around. The way to
do that is to put 1.2.8 in /usr/local or /opt/gnome. Then write a
script like this:

#! /bin/bash

export C_INCLUDE_PATH=/home/hp/unst/include:$C_INCLUDE_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/hp/unst/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export ACLOCAL_FLAGS='-I /home/hp/unst/share/aclocal'
export PATH=/home/hp/unst/bin:$PATH
exec $*

I call this script "unst" and as you can see I have installed to
--prefix=/home/hp/unst. 

To use the libs in /home/hp/unst I prefix commands with "unst":

 unst ./configure 
 unst make

Havoc