Re: Re: gEDA-user: gEDA install not detecting GTK+ on Fedora 6

["Wojciech Kazubski" <wk0@xxxxx>]

> On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 08:14 -0500, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> > Rebuild GTK-2.10 again, with ./configure --prefix=/usr  or just
> > install from RPMs.
> 
> Just be careful though... rebuilding a much newer version of GTK and
> installing in /usr might break existing applications which are linked
> against the older version of GTK. The APIs are compatible, but
> underlying technologies and dependent libraries (such as Cairo) are not.
> My understanding is that the cairo libraries etc.. need to be specified
> when the application is compiled - and cannot just be automatically
> pulled in by the newer GTK library as it wishes.
> 
> Use RPMs if you can.
> 
Fedora Core 6 currently has gtk2 2.10.4 in updates (and anything needed for it), see
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/

Wojciech Kazubski


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