Re: gtk

[Michael Ekstrand <mekstran scl ameslab gov>]

OK, after enough cross-posting madness due to my silly mistake  
earlier (mailing gtkmm-list rather than gtk-list), hopefully this  
will put this thread back where it belongs.

On Aug 8, 2006, at 2:53 PM, Michael Ekstrand wrote:
> On Aug 8, 2006, at 9:43 AM, Bill Cunningham wrote:
> >   Ok I used reply all this time. :) The options at compile time  
> > that I
> > ususally use is really only --prefix=/usr maybe some other switches
> > with --x-includes if that option is available. I tried compiling
> > all this
> > stuff without XFree and I don't think it worked because I'm
> > assuming XFree
> > provides frame buffer support. I want to compile xxms and firefox
> > and maybe
> > work on some basic packages of the gnome desktop.
>
> A few things:  one, you do need to build with XFree - otherwise it
> won't do anything useful.  Also, installing to /usr is stepping on
> your distro's domain, and quite susceptible to problems.  Installing
> to /usr/local puts stuff in a location the distro has actually
> reserved (or should reserve) for you to use for your own software.
>
> IIRC, XMMS uses GTK 1.2.  You'll need to install that separately.
> beep-media-player is based on the XMMS source code and does use GTK2
> though.
>
> If you install pkg-config and all the glib/gtk stuff to the same
> prefix, as long as pkg-config is in your PATH, you won't have any
> problems with needing to set PKG_CONFIG_PATH (unless you somehow
> override the default pkg-config search path.
>
> - Michael
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