Re: Installing local/individual GTK

["J. Davison de St. Germain" <dav cs utah edu>]

[I'm sending this email again as the last one seemed to get trapped in
moderator limbo.]

Hi,

  I'm trying to build the newest GTK (and the myriad of packages it
requires).  On my current computer, there are some badly installed
and/or older versions of GTK (and its support packages), therefore I
am trying to install all of the files for the new versions into my
home directory. (However some of the system installed libraries are
apparently still visible.)

  After hacking on most of support packages' build systems for hours I
finally, I think, got them installed. (In ~/gtk_stuff.)  

  Now, when I try to build GTK itself, the pkg-manager thing keeps
dieing with various errors about system libs.  It doesn't seem to be
able to figure out that I only want it to look at the ones I've
installed myself in my home dir.

  It seems to be a heck of an ordeal to compile and install GTK.  I
would appreciate any help you can give me in creating a installation
of GTK in my home directory.  (BTW, I am trying to install this on a
IRIX SGI.)

    Thanks,
           Dave

PS.  Please respond via email in addition to posting to the list.

PPS. I'm trying to install it locally because our program that links
against the older/system installed libs exhibits strange behavior and
also to learn about the GTK system.  The strange behavior is this:

The program comes up but when I try to bring up a menu (which needs a
font) it "freezes" up.  After about 4 minutes, it returns printing out
a message that says something like "font not found, please look at
your .fonts.conf file... etc."  I have
/usr/local/lib/pango/1.2.0/modules (which have a bunch of .so's in it)
in my .fonts.conf file.  (BTW, a .fonts.cahce-1 files is created with
that path in it.)  I've searched the web trying to find out how
to make this work, but I can't find anything.  It is unclear to me how
all these pieces fit together and I can't find a lot of docs on all
the different pieces.  Perhaps solving this problem is easier than the
installing of GTK.  Any help on this problem is also greatly
appreciated.  Thanks again in advance.

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