Re: why is gtk install so difficult?

[Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS <ruben mrbrklyn com>]

While it might be tedious to have a properly working autoconf
test, it is what is needed for a sane installation of the source.


BTW - this problem is not just with gtk, but with gnome as well.

Nothing is more fustrating than being told by a gtk application
that lib xyz doesn't exist, when you can see the library in plain sight
on the file system.

Ruben


On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 12:34:29AM -0300, Mariano Suarez-Alvarez wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 00:22, Paul Davis wrote:
> > >I assume some pre-existing libraries were linked with an older linker,
> > >then a newer linker was installed? The only solution in that case is
> > >for users to know the meaning of:
> > >   /usr/i386-pc-linux/bin/ld: anonymous version tag cannot be combined
> > >                              with other version tags
> > >
> > >Maybe ld should have a more meaningful error message on object/linker
> > >versions. It would be tedious to write an autoconf sanity check macro
> > >for every library to be linked.
> > 
> > thus proving (or at least confirming) sven's that this has nothing to
> > do with installing GTK, per se.
> 
> Maybe gtk's configure script could evolve into something admins could
> add to their crontabs so that they get a weekly check on the well being
> of their systems...
> 
> -- m
> 
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