Re: Trying to do a "personal" install of gtk+1.2.10

[Helmethead <hoshem mel comcen com au>]

On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 03:13:35PM -1000, David Goldsmith wrote:
> I'm trying to do a "personal" install - because I don't have root access -
> of gtk+1.2.10 in Solaris 5.7.  As near as I can tell (none of the steps in
> the install instructions terminated w/ an error or warning), I
> successfully installed all the glib files in a glib-1.2.10 directory
> immediately under my home directory, and added my home directory,
> $HOME/glib-1.2.10, and all the directories under $HOME/glib-1.2.10 to
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and then in $HOME/gtk+-1.2.10, sh ./configure --prefix=$home
> gets successfully as far as
> 
> "checking for glib-config... /home/hal/dgoldsmi/bin/glib-config"
> 
> but then reports:
> 
> checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.8... no
> *** 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
> 
> I have addeded everything I can think of to my LD_LIBRARY_PATH, I have no
> ld.so.conf file in /etc (and can't add one 'cause I don't have root
> access), and ldconfig doesn't appear to be recognized by my system.
> 
> Am I trying to do the impossible?  If not, what do I need to do?  Thanks,

put $HOME/lib in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH, that's all you should put there
put $HOME/bin in your PATH too, if it isn't already there
PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH entries are separated by a column ':' by the way, if you weren't sure