Re: why is gtk install so difficult?

[Tara Milana <learfox twu net>]

On 2003.10.22 19:37 Michael Torrie wrote:

> What about freetype, Xft, pkg-config?

Dear Micheal,

freetype is 6.3.0 (it was installed from source I beleve).
I don't have Xft.
pkg-config is 0.15.0


> So far in my spare time I've managed to get pkg-config built and and rpm
> created.  In order to do that, though, I had to install redhat 7.3's
> autoconf* and automake* and libtool*.  Otherwise I got libtool errors
> (not sure at this stage if the newer autoconf and automake libraries are
> really needed).  Now I'm building glib2.  It builds fine, but for some
> reason the shared libraries get built without the .so extension. 
> Definitely a libtool problem.

Well I really feel that GTK 2 can be (should be) compiled
from source on a Redhat 6 platform. I really don't want to
have a (long, *ugh*) meeting with my developers and spend
the next few months reviewing the issues of upgrading.

Let me know if you figure out what causes the problems,
thanks Micheal!

--Tara