Re: Installing gtk/gtkmm on Linux

["Joe Van Dyk" <joevandyk gmail com>]

On 7/18/06, Denis Leroy <denis poolshark org> wrote:
> Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
> > 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).
>
> Yes but what about run-time dependencies on things like the gconf daemon ?

No clue, I've never done anything related to gconf.  I imagine that
you'd want to use the gconf daemon that's installed by default on the
machine unless there's a really good reason why you can't.

Joe