[18038] in Athena Bugs
Re: gtk-1.2.6 installed on Linux Athena.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Wed Jul 26 15:27:46 2000
To: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU, tibbetts@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 26 Jul 2000 15:26:28 -0400
In-Reply-To: Richard Tibbetts's message of "Wed, 26 Jul 2000 12:12:18 -0400"
Message-ID: <u1hu2dc3d7f.fsf@alice-whacker.mit.edu>
Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Nearly every app that uses both gtk and autoconf will have issues, I
> believe. This is because of the two stage process by which autoconf
> checks for gtk libraries. First it runs gtk-config
> (/usr/athena/bin/gtk-config, version 1.2.8 since that is the first one
> in most people's path). Then configure builds a test program which
> links with libgtk (which gets /usr/lib/gtk, version 1.2.6). Since the
> version numbers are different, it blows out.
It should use gtk-config to compile the test program! Why on earth
doesn't it?
