Re: gtk

[Michael Ekstrand <mekstran scl ameslab gov>]

On Aug 8, 2006, at 9:43 AM, Bill Cunningham wrote:
>   Ok I used reply all this time. :) The options at compile time that I
> ususally use is really only --prefix=/usr maybe some other switches
> with --x-includes if that option is available. I tried compiling  
> all this
> stuff without XFree and I don't think it worked because I'm  
> assuming XFree
> provides frame buffer support. I want to compile xxms and firefox  
> and maybe
> work on some basic packages of the gnome desktop.

A few things:  one, you do need to build with XFree - otherwise it  
won't do anything useful.  Also, installing to /usr is stepping on  
your distro's domain, and quite susceptible to problems.  Installing  
to /usr/local puts stuff in a location the distro has actually  
reserved (or should reserve) for you to use for your own software.

IIRC, XMMS uses GTK 1.2.  You'll need to install that separately.   
beep-media-player is based on the XMMS source code and does use GTK2  
though.

If you install pkg-config and all the glib/gtk stuff to the same  
prefix, as long as pkg-config is in your PATH, you won't have any  
problems with needing to set PKG_CONFIG_PATH (unless you somehow  
override the default pkg-config search path.

- Michael