Re: Problems installing gtk libs on RedHat 7.1

[Mark Wheaton <mark wheaton ntlworld com>]

Hi Sven,
   that has done the trick, thank you.

I should have spotted the  PKG_CONFIG_PATH thing myself, so thanks for 
being patient.

All the best,

Mark

Sven Neumann wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Mark Wheaton <mark wheaton ntlworld com> writes:
>
>  
>
> >    I'm new to this whole GTK world. I have been trying to get
> > everything installed for a couple of days now, . I've read the FAQ and
> > everything else I can find and I just can't get it to work.  I'm
> > hoping someone out there will be able to help.
> >
> > Here's the story:
> >
> > *RedHat 7.1 on i686
> > *gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-81)
> > *Glib compiled and installed in /opt/glib2.0.6 (sorry - I used to run
> > Solaris boxen :-)
> >    
>
> I've administred a couple of Solaris boxes for a longer time but I
> haven't seen any advantage in installing each and every library into 
> their own prefix. But of course that's up to you...
>
>  
>
> > */etc/ld.so.conf tweaked to add /opt/glib2.0.6/lib and ldconfig run.
> >    
>
> you should also tweak the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable to include
> /opt/glib2.0.6/lib/pkgconfig (and of course the paths to all the other
> packages you are going to install later).
>
> This is all explained pretty well in the link which is mentioned at
> the bottom of the file INSTALL in the glib tarball:
>   
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-building.html
>
>
> Salut, Sven
>
>