Re: why is gtk install so difficult?

[Tara Milana <learfox twu net>]

On 2003.10.16 08:21 Michael L Torrie wrote:
 
> > 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.

Hi Micheal, the problem is the compiling GTK part.

--Tara