GTK is easy to install

[David Meggy <dmeggy techsol ca>]

Hi, I've been reading the very long thread "why is gtk install so
difficult?", and I'd like to add my own comments.  I've been building
GTK for quite a while now, on both a desktop machine and cross compiling
onto embedded devices, and I'd like to say that for a program of GTK's
size it is one of the easiest programs I have ever built.

Maybe what is needed is a FAQ for building programs with the GNU
autobuild tools.  I could write one that would only be a few hundred
words at most (preferably smaller) that could describe the problems and
solutions that everyone on this list has had problems with.

I could address

--help    	(The most important option)
--prefix
ld-config
PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH
pkg-config
PKG_CONFIG_PATH
--x-includes=	(I saw this come up in an earlier post)
--x-libraries=
--enable-feature, etc.

then maybe a small section on cross compiling, and pkg building
problems with configure scripts on cross compiling
dev. pkg. vs. runtime pkg.
--build
--host
--target (not really gtk related)
DESTDIR, --prefix


Does anyone have any other ideas of what to add?

Please CC me on any reply, since I'm on the digest version of this list,
and I won't get list e-mails immediately.

David 

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