Re: Frame Buffer Support

[Raul Dias <chaos swi com br>]

On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 16:43 -0500, muppet wrote:
> Torsten Schoenfeld said:
> > On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 18:41 -0200, Raul Dias wrote:
> >
> > > If so, can I use the same Modules (Gtk2.pm) from X11 or do I need a
> > > separate module compile only for FB?
> >
> > No, I think the same Gtk2.pm installation will work.
>
> Actually, i don't think so.  Gtk2.pm is going to load Gtk2.so, and Gtk2.so
> will be linked against the gtk+ library by soname (for x11, that's
> libgtk-x11-2.0 and libgdk-x11-2.0), and includes X11-specific code if you're
> building against the X11 backend.  The linkage issue makes the target-specific
> code issue moot.
>
> The easiest solution is to install Gtk2 for X11 and FB in different prefixes,
> and use the PERL5LIB env var to switch between them.  (Sandboxes, essentially;
> see the README with Gtk2.)

AFAIU, there is an issue when playing with PERL5LIB.
If Gtk2 is a system module (as it is with Mandrake), changing PERL5LIB
wouldn't make perl not find other system/vendor modules?

Raul Dias
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Raul Dias <chaos swi com br>