Re: Gtk2-1.021 make test failures

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Thursday, January 1, 2004, at 08:17 PM, Kevin Spencer wrote:

> I'm on a Mandrake 9.1 box, Perl 5.8.0.  Any pointers/help you could 
> give
> would be greatly appreciated.

if i'm not mistaken, mdk 9.1 shipped with the original Inline-based 
gtk2-perl, which was used to implement their system tools.

you're failing on the two tests that load pms, and we've seen problems 
with those particular tests picking up the installed stuff rather than 
the blib stuff during test, causing problems because the old Inline 
stuff (versions <=0.12 is not compatible with the xs-based stuff 
(versions >= 0.20, including 1.021).

installing the new stuff over the old stuff doesn't quite work, as the 
.so and .pm files go to different spots in the tree, leaving the old 
stuff installed to cause problems.


more importantly, however --- mandrake's system tools will probably 
break very very badly if you upgrade gtk2-perl systemwide (similar to 
what happens to redhat 8.0's tools if you upgrade pygtk).  look through 
the README for a description of how to set up an installation of the 
perl modules into a non-system place and include them via environment 
variables.

mandrake 9.2 shipped with a modified version of gtk2-perl somewhere 
around 0.94.  i have heard no reports about whether upgrading to 1.0x 
is successful.


guillaume, thierry, please feel free to correct me.

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