Re: Installing gtk/gtkmm on Linux

["Jonathon Jongsma" <jonathon jongsma gmail com>]

On 7/18/06, Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk gmail com> wrote:
> Oh, it's not that bad.
>
> Mick, you'll need to modify the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH
> environment variables.  The configure script relies on those
> environment variables to figure out what's installed and where things
> are.
>
> Say you install glib 2.10 to /opt/local.  The glib libraries will be
> in /opt/local/lib.  The pkg-config files for glib will be in
> /opt/local/lib/pkgconfig.  So, you'd set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be
> /opt/local/lib and PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be /opt/local/lib/pkgconfig.
>
> (Example using bash shell)
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/local/lib
> export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/local/lib/pkgconfig
>
> Then when you run the configure script for atk, it should find the
> glib that's in /opt/local and not know about the other one that's
> installed.

This is the reason I suggested jhbuild.  It handles installing almost
all of the dependencies and it will set up the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and
PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variables for you as well (when you're
within the `jhbuild shell` environment).

--
jonner