Re: Installing gtk without root access

["Ian King" <king eiffel com>]

Is LD_LIBRARY_PATH available in GNU ld (on linux)?  If I had an older
version of gtk 1.2 (say 1.2.0) and I wanted to install 1.2.9 without root
access.  How would I get my application to dynamically use the 1.2.9 shared
libraries (which would be in my home/gtk/lib directory) without editing
ld.so.conf (root access needed), or breaking any other applications?

Thanks for your time

Ian King

----- Original Message -----
From: "Erik Mouw" <J A K Mouw ITS TUDelft NL>
To: "Raymond Wan" <rwan cs mu oz au>
Cc: "GTK-List" <gtk-list gnome org>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: Installing gtk without root access


> On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:43:07PM +1000, Raymond Wan wrote:
> > A few weeks ago, someone posted a message about having problems
> > installing GTK without root access.  I'm having problems with it now,
but
> > before I go digging through the scripts, can someone confirm to me
whether
> > or not it is possible to install GTK without root access?
Unfortunately,
> > our system administrator is overloaded with work (as most sysadmins are
:)
> > ), so I would like to try to install it myself.
>
> Sure, no problem.
>
> > The person who posted that message got a lot of helpful advice but
> > no one said that it was not possible to install GTK without root
> > permission, so can I presume it is possible?
>
> Yes.
>
> export MY_GTK=/home/myhome/gtk
> export PATH=$MY_GTK/bin:$PATH
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$MY_GTK/lib
>
> Now configure install GTK the usual way, but use the flag
> --prefix=$MY_GTK for all configure scripts.
>
>
> Erik
>
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