Re: Switching GTK version

[Igor Korot <ikorot01 gmail com>]

Hi, Link,

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Link Dupont <link sub-pop net> wrote:
> Hi Igor,
>
> On Tue, 2017-08-22 at 15:48 -0400, Igor Korot wrote:
> >  Hi, ALL,
> > I have setup to do my development for GTK+2 and GTK+3 on 2 different
> > machines.
> > My project is on GitHub and there is one codebase.
> >
> > What's the best way to set up Makefiles?
>
> You're going to find this is a matter of opinion. Traditionally, GTK+
> and GNOME projects have used GNU autotools for their build system. Many
> are now moving to meson. Either way, I suggest you take some time and
> learn one or both in order to make an informed decision about which
> build system is best for you.
>
> Meson is relatively new, and has most of its documentation on its
> website[1]. GNU autotools has a vast online manual available[2],
> however I recommend reading "Autotools: A Practition's Guide to to GNU
> Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool"[3] to get a hands-on understanding of
> the autotools suite.
>
> 1: http://mesonbuild.com/
> 2: http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/, etc.
> 3: https://www.nostarch.com/autotools.htm
>
> You could, of course, eschew all of those and use your own hand-
> maintained Makefile. You'll find varying levels of opinion there too,
> although you'll encounter some pretty compelling arguments against
> maintaining your own hand-crafted Makefiles anywhere you look. In this
> case, you could consider at least using pkg-config to find out whether
> your required libraries are installed and where they are located on
> your build host.

I'm actually working with Anjuta.
Anjuta is Makefile-based.

The problem is that if I change something I need to do a 'git pull',
which overwrites
the "pkg-config --includedir gtk+2" to be "pkg-config --includedir gtk+3".

So I'm thinking to just create an environment variable - something
like "USE_GTK3",
export it on the machine set for GTK3, then fix the Makefile.in for my project.
Then this will be kept independently of which version I have installed
on the system.

Or is there a better and simpler alternative? Maybe pkg-config has
something like
"set the current GTK+ version to be GTK+3"?

Thank you.

> > Is it feasible to define some environment variable and select GTK
> > version if it defined?
> >
> > Or there is a better alternative?
> >
> > Thank you.
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