Re: Problems with pango

["David Gasa Castell" <dgasacas7 hotmail com>]

Dear Mr. Olexiy,
Dear Mr. David Necas (Yeti),

Thanks a lot for your patience, and for your answers !.

David Gasa i Castell

PD: I think that this information should be usefull to every people. Is it 
possible to (re) arrange it and located in any FAQ ? (It's only a suggestion 
...)


> From: Olexiy Avramchenko <olexiy ctech cn ua>
> To: David Gasa Castell <dgasacas7 hotmail com>
> CC: gtk-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Problems with pango
> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 11:53:56 +0300
>
> David Gasa Castell wrote:
> > Ok, Mr. Olexiy,
> >
> > You are right !. I just compiled Gtk+-2.8 (with  Glib-2.8, Pango-1.10, 
> > Atk-1.10.1, including Cairo-0.9.2 and Glitz-0.4.4) from source without 
> > uninstalling old versions before and then, when tried to compile flin.c, 
> > the error was find. Also, I set $PKG_CONFIG_PATH, $LD_LIBRARY_PATH 
> > environment variables but not  $LD_RUN_PATH.
> >
> > I'm working on a FC3 (Heildelberg) OS (not updated, I'll do it right 
> > after). Could you tell me how can delete the old ones? Using rpm -e ? 
> > against with packages ? and.. After or before the compilation of Gtk+-2.8 
> > ?
> Yes, the right way to uninstall software in FC is 'rpm -e', you may want to 
> add '--nodeps' because many packages depend on gtk2, glib2, etc. If you do 
> this before compilation your system functionality will be very limited - 
> think of all programs linked with removed libs.
>
> THIS IS *VERY DANGEROUS*, I'm sure that some applications will stop working 
> - your system's default is gtk+-2.4. Also, there will be problems with 
> future rpm installs - unsatisfied packages dependencies.
>
> If you want just to test gtk+-2.8, you don't need to uninstall anything and 
> even install libraries to the system location. Do the following:
> 1. Unpack glitz, do
> "./configure --prefix=/home/your-home/test-dir"
> make, make install.
> 2. Unpack cairo, do
> "export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/your-home/test-dir/lib/pkgconfig"
> "export LD_RUN_PATH=/home/your-home/test-dir/lib"
> "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/your-home/test-dir/lib"
> this will set the env. variables (PKG_CONFIG_PATH for pkg-config, 
> LD_RUN_PATH for ld, LD_LIBRARY_PATH for ld.so), so do all following steps 
> in the same shell,
> do:
> "./configure --prefix=/home/your-home/test-dir"
> make, make install
> 3. Unpack glib, configure, make, install.
> 4. The same for atk.
> 5. The same for pango.
> 6. The same for gtk.
>
> Now you have all libraries installed under "/home/your-home/test-dir". To 
> compile anything with them you need export env variables like in 2) If you 
> need to run smth you need just LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Try to run Gnome and after 
> than think whether you need to upgrade your system.
>
> 	Olexiy