Re: gtk+ 2.24 installation problems

2012-03-03 Thread Roger Davis
Thanks, Allin. For one thing, you need to ensure that you're building 64-bit versions of the libraries if you want to overwrite the distro-supplied versions. I'm not familiar with CentOS but presumably this should be documented. It's building 64-bit versions all right, the problem seems to be

Re: gtk+ 2.24 installation problems

2012-03-03 Thread Roger Davis
Hi all, After deciding to just let all of the gtk+ and related packages install themselves into /usr/local and resetting PKG_CONFIG_PATH things went much better. There was still one hiccup, however -- when I built gtk+ the make complained about not being able to find the file /usr/lib64/gdk-

Re: gtk+ 2.24 installation problems

2012-03-03 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Sat, 3 Mar 2012, Roger Davis wrote: Secondly, there's no point in building/installing obsolete "unstable" versions of the libraries in question (e.g. glib 2.27.93): use current stable versions, which for glib means 2.28.7 or 2.30.2. I picked 2.27.93 because the gtk+ 2.24 configure told me

Re: gtk+ 2.24 installation problems

2012-03-03 Thread Roger Davis
Thanks, Allin! I'll give that a try. Roger On Sat, 3 Mar 2012, Allin Cottrell wrote: On Sat, 3 Mar 2012, Roger Davis wrote: Secondly, there's no point in building/installing obsolete "unstable" versions of the libraries in question (e.g. glib 2.27.93): use current stable versions, which fo