[18043] in Athena Bugs
Re: gtk-1.2.6 installed on Linux Athena.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Jul 26 20:17:07 2000
Message-Id: <200007270017.UAA05995@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:42:10 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 20:17:02 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> /usr/athena/bin/gtk-config returns information about libraries that
> eat in /usr/athena/lib, but does not actually cause programs to use
> these libraries.
Well, if we removed the gnome gtk RPM, it wouldn't actually help the
situation; the test program would fail to find any gtk library,
instead of finding an old one.
> A solution to this would have /usr/athena/bin/gtk-config --libs
> including R-paths as well as -L and -l options.
It would have to know about different kinds of linkers (or have that
information configured in), which might be tricky.
> PS: This might make contained builds more interesting.
Nope. The binaries really ought to be built using -R/usr/athena/lib,
and if you're doing work in the aui locker, something is wrong if they
aren't (config.site puts that option in LDFLAGS). For contained
builds, we set an LD_LIBRARY_PATH to override the run path.
