Re: [gtkmm] GTKmm2.4 installation: requries libsigc-2.0.so.0

[Matthew Walton <matthew alledora co uk>]

Daniel Sundberg wrote:

> Hi!
>
> What sort of package are you trying to install? If you are installing 
> from source you should download the source package of libsigc++ 
> avalailable from http://libsigc.sf.net. If you are trying to install 
> some rpm file you could usually find libsigc++ rpm:s where you find 
> gtkmm rpms. However, third party rpm packages are not officially 
> supported by gtkmm. Rpm packages should be supplied with the distribution.
>
> Anyway, I am not 100% sure that you will be able to install latest gtkmm 
> on rh7 or rh9. I think recent gtkmm and libsigc might depend on features 
> not avalaible on the compilers used in such old distributions. You might 
> consider upgrading to fedora core 1 or 2. Someone else might be able to 
> tell you if it is possible to compile gtkmm-2.4 from source on gcc 2.9*...

As far as I'm aware, libsigc++ 2 requires g++ 3.2 to compile, so gtkmm 
2.4 requires g++ 3.2 in order to satisfy its dependencies.