Re: gEDA-user: PCB Gtk port

["Daniel Nilsson" <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mario Klebsch (mario@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Hi!

Hello...

> Am 01.03.2005 um 03:25 schrieb Daniel Nilsson:
> > So I knew that building GTK+ 2.6 on Solaris is a bit of a hazzle due
> > to the Xrender stuff, that's why I wanted to point you to the
> > libraries yesterday that I used to make it work.
>
> Who does really believe, that binary distribution is a sollution to
> source code compatibility problems? I do not.

I don't know. I was pointing to source code to build libraries from. Don't
know where the binary distribution aspect came in to the picture.

> >  I have GTK+ 2.6
> > running under Solaris 8 / SPARC, it does not require the XRENDER
> > extension on the Xserver. I know how you feel though, I thought too
> > that starting with GTK+ 2.something that you were out of luck unless
> > you had XRENDER on the Xserver. But after reading up on it I found
> > those libraries from Keith that made it all work, they did pay
> > attention to make sure that users on Sun/AIX/Tru64 etc etc shouldn't
> > be unable to use apps requiring GTK+ 2.6.
>
> So, if those libraries do work on Solaris, why isnÄt the soruce code of
> GTK+ working on solaris?

The libraries are built from the GTK+ source on Solaris, so the source
code works... Maybe you can clarify your question a little ?

/Daniel