Re: Compiling GTK+

[redfive <gtk-list jgaunt com>]

Ian Davidson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've built Glib 2.8.6, but when I ./configure GTK+-2.8.11
> it can't find the updated Glib.
>
> The message I get is:
>  "require glib.2.0 >= 2.8.5 but version of glib is 2.6.4"
>
> How do I get GTK+ to pick up the newer version of glib?
>
> How do I find out where the new glib is installed?
>
> How can I find out which version of glib is installed? and where?
>
> I bet it's easy once you know how :-)
>
> Thanks,
>
> ian
>
>   

I've currently built gtk and many of it's dependencies and what I found 
to work well was to run configure with | --prefix=/testbuilds |. If you 
build glib with that configure option when you | make install | it will 
install to that directory. Then set PKG_CONFIG_PATH to point to the .pc 
file associated with glib. It will be in /testbuilds/lib/pkgconfig  or 
somewhere like that. Then run configure with the same --prefix=< dir > 
setting and it will build and then install into that directory.

I'm sure configure is just picking up the currently installed version of 
glib instead of your built version ( it uses pkg-config to find the 
library info ).

redfive