One of GTK+ dependency is GLib, each GTK+ version has it's GLib version
dependency too, if you try to compile a newer GTK+ version in a system that has
not meet it's minimal requirement of GLib version then they will complain.
You tried to update GLib on your distro using a package manager, you will got
nothing to do because your distro will not broke all dependency that it already
made. Moving from 2.4.0 to 2.12.3 is not trivial, this will break many
applications that already installed, so they must have to update all
applications to meet the new dependency. Distributor tend to release a new
distro version rather than rebuild and update applications in the their current
version.
g_timer_add()? i don't know if this was a obsolete function, but i think there
are a lot way to write codes such this function does. I can't see a reason why
you should move to a version of GTK+ because of this function!
--- ajhwb
--- adeelmali...@yahoo.com wrote:
From: Adeel Malik <adeelmali...@yahoo.com>
To: gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org
Subject: Problem with installing GTK+-2.0.0 on Fedora Core 6
Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 21:13:24 -0700 (PDT)
Hi All,
I am doing application development on Fedora Core 6 Linux machine which
had GTK version 1.2.1 already installed. I needed to use g_timer_add
gnome function in my gtk application which doesn't seem to be supported on this
version. So i tried to install the newer version of GTK+-2.0.0 from the gtk.org
web page.
Once I copied tar.gz file and tried to install the app. by running the
'./configure' script, the insatallation process stopped at the following error
messages:
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checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0...
*** 'pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0' returned 2.12.3, but GLIB (2.4.0)
*** was found! If pkg-config was correct, then it is best
*** to remove the old version of GLib. You may also be able to fix the error
*** by modifying your LD_LIBRARY_PATH enviroment variable, or by editing
*** /etc/ld.so.conf. Make sure you have run ldconfig if that is
*** required on your system.
*** If pkg-config was wrong, set the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH
*** to point to the correct configuration files
no
configure: error:
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I treid to update the glib library by running:
'yum update glib' or 'yum install glib' but it appeared that kernel couldn't
find the match and issued the following messages:
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Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
core 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
extras 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Could not find update match for glib
No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion
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I was wondering whether the problem is with the 'yum' package as it is unable
to find the requested Glib library. Since the whole point of installing the new
version of GTK was to be able to use the 'g_timer_add' function, can some one
suggest if it is possible to use this function with the GTK 1.2.1 version. If
not, can someone point out how can I fix the installation error if GTK+-2.0.0.
Thanks,
Adeel
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