Re: why is gtk install so difficult?

[Tara Milana <learfox twu net>]

On 2003.10.16 01:43 Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> > From: Tara Milana [mailto:learfox twu net] 
> > 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.
> 
> Is that likely? For instance, I don't think that debian or RedHat's GTK+
> would suddenly need glibc 2.2 instead of glibc 2.0 between GTK+ 2.2.20
> and
> GTK+ 2.2.21. I have no idea what version of glibc is used by any
> particular
> version of GTK+ on RedHat or Debian in reality.

Hi, yes it is likely.

--Tara