RE: why is gtk install so difficult?

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> From: Tara Milana [mailto: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.

Can you give me some more information? Is it likely on debian or Redhat, for
instance? When/where have you seen such a problem?

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