Re: why is gtk install so difficult?

[Michael L Torrie <torriem chem byu edu>]

On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 03:03, Tara Milana wrote:
> On 2003.10.16 00:33 Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> 
> > You only have to update the dependencies if you have to update the
> > dependencies. If a new GTK+ version requires updated dependencies then
> > you'll have the same problem when building from source, except it will be
> > more difficult.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> What if, for example, if a packaged GTK+ 2 was compiled for,
> say, a glibc 2.2 system and someone with a glibc 2.0 system could
> still run GTK+ 2 if it were compiled for glibc 2.0 but the
> packaged GTK+ 2 was not compiled for glibc 2.0. In this case the
> person would need to compile from source.

I see.  What I do is download the source version of the package from my
distro maker (rh in my case) and rebuild the rpms (build my own
packages) for the older system.  This is the easiest and cleanest way,
much cleaner than compiling to /usr/local from a tarball.

Michael


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