Re: Build problem Gtk2-1.037

[Ross McFarland <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 16:53, jjd wrote:
> I found the development packages, and installed them. Compile and
> install were successful, but some of the Mandrake utilities that use
> Gtk2-perl won't work anymore. 

in an older version of mandrake the version of the gtk2-perl modules had
some non-trivial patches to get it to work with some of their tools.
there was a lengthy discussion between mandrake and gtk2-perl about this
that lead to solutions of the issues, but not the way the mandrake
patches did (because the solutions weren't valid and could cause bad
juju, jumping main loops.) at any rate, it would appear that you are
using a version of mandrake with the patched Gtk2-Perl. 
i thought there was a faq entry about this, but apparently there's not.
there is some discussion of it on the mailing list if you search on
google for "site:mail.gnome.org gtk2-perl mandrake" it should be in
there somewhere. basically you can probably fix things by re-installing
the original mandrake packages and then installing gtk2-perl to a
non-system location. (take a look at the comments in Makefile in the
top-level of gtk2-perl-xs in cvs for some hints as to how)  

as a side note this is really Mandrakes fault (and almost all other
dists do similar things) they should really have private installs of any
modules like this specifically for their tools so that if a user wants
to upgrade there's no chance of breaking the tools. redhat and pygtk are
another occurance of this problem.

-rm

-rm