Re: why is gtk install so difficult?

[Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS <ruben mrbrklyn com>]

./confure

make

make install

IMO, That is all that should be needed to compile anything to a sane
configuration.  How many places can the libraries be sitting? - 4 or 5
tops?  Use locate in the autoconf file, or find if need be.

Ruben

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 07:48:19PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS <ruben mrbrklyn com> writes:
> 
> > While it might be tedious to have a properly working autoconf
> > test, it is what is needed for a sane installation of the source.
> 
> You obviously missed the cause of this particular problem. Of course
> what you state here is correct in general.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> IMO this is solely a problem of people not reading the docs. Building
> GTK+ (and probably most if not all GNOME applications) is
> straight-forward if you know a handful of rules. Basically you will
> need to know how your compiler looks for include files and how your
> linker looks for libraries. Then you should know how to change these
> behaviours and what role pkg-config is playing in this game. All this
> can be explained in full detail in about hundred lines. If people
> would look at the file INSTALL, they would notice a link to a webpage
> as well as a pointer to a local file which does just that. If you have
> a working build environment and understand these simple rules, you
> shouldn't run into any build problems.
> 
> 
> Sven

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