Re: getting Gtk-perl

[Nori Heikkinen <nori+gtk-perl maenad net>]

on Fri, 15 Aug 2003 03:35:00PM -0400, muppet insinuated:
> Nori Heikkinen said:
> > > don't wait for 1.0, use 0.94 (released about two hours ago).
> >
> > okay.
> >
> > i've been trying to compile and install, and it appears to have
> > worked.  I'm curious as to why 20 out of 20 tests fail in `make
> > test` (on both 0.92, which i tried half an hour ago, and 0.94):
>
> i didn't check all of them, but the first five failed tests
> experienced their first failures on the line with Gtk2->init.  the
> only ways Gtk2->init will fail are gtk binary version mismatches and
> inablity to connect to an X server.

oh, of course -- i was doing this as root.  :)  running it as me
yields *much* better results!  thanks.

and the install is working anyhow ... i was just curious.

thanks,

</nori>

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