Re: upgrading GTK1.2 to GTK2.0 and displaying images

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

Peter Van Osta <pvosta unionbio-eu com> writes:

> I am currently running a RedHat 7.2 system with GTK1.2 installed. How do
> I upgrade from GTK1.2 to GTK2.0 without breaking the system ? I am using
> GNOME for my desktop and I do not want to crash the system by changing
> libraries the system might depend on.

no too old versions of gtk+-1.2 live peacefully with gtk+-2.0 on the
same system or even in the same prefix.

> When compiling a GTK-based program I use "gtk-config --cflags --libs", I
> suppose I have to redirect the settings of gtk-config to the updated
> GTK2.0 if I want to use GTK2.0 instead of GTK1.2 ?

pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0


Salut, Sven