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Re: The wonderful world of GTK (rant)



>Morning,

Evening,

>
>Well, it seems that with Redhat 7.1 (and probably with Mandrake 8 -
>not sure) - you'll get gtk 1.2.9 and glib 1.2.9, which... umm...
>breaks the compatibility with all of whats related to fonts...
>
>Solution?
>
>Upgrade to GTK+ and GLIB 1.2.10.
>
>RPM's are not available yet, so compile them with the parameter:
>--prefix=/usr or else gtk+ won't find glib (glib needs to be compiled
>first).

Official RPMS may not be available yet, but you can *easily* create your own 
rpms by doing rpm -ts gtk+-1.2.10.tar.gz and the same goes to
glib. Then you compile the src.rpm that was generated.

>Don't forget to remove the gtk+ and gtk+-devel and glib (and yes,
>glib-devel) RPM's before installing the new compiled ones (unless you
>got the RPM's - currently available only to SuSE).
>
>another reason why I love so much gtk...

Please, no flame wars here, but I find that glib and gtk+ rpms are
much more easy to get than qt rpms. That is, if you bother to look in
the tar.gz and see that it actually contains a spec file. I thought
that Ximian would be a little more responsive, and will produce their
own rpm version for Mandrake, Redhat and the other distributions, but
they are lagging behind, for no apparent reason (to me at least).
BTW, from my personal experience, there are packages which do not contain 
spec files, but the spec file is created after running
configure. LAME (an mp3 encoder) and ProFTP are two names that come to
mind.

Cheers,
Yosi
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