Re: why is gtk install so difficult?

[Michael Torrie <torriem chem byu edu>]

On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 07:23, Sven Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As outlined in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103708 your
> problem to compile gdk-pixbuf is a version incompatibility with your
> binutils and you can hardly blame the GTK+ developers for this.

Perhaps this should be in the permanent FAQ.  I had never heard about
this before now.  I saw one reference to it on the mailing list archives
(the same problem as she had) but no one responded.  That was about six
months ago.  I guess it's in the permanent record now, as it's now in
the list archive.  :)

Michael

> There will always be someone who has problems but in general the vast
> majority of people that attempt to build GTK+ from source don't run
> into any problems. Compiling GTK+ might not be trivial because of its
> dependencies but it is pretty much straight-forward and could hardly
> be made easier.
> 
> 
> Sven
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