On 2008-07-07 21:07 +0200, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 07/07/2008 07:29 AM, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: >> [...] >> BTW Mumia W., according to his message, stores his newly-compiled >> gtk in an "exotic" location. I didn't do this. /usr/local (the >> default when you compile from gtk.org) is exotic enough. Stuff >> which is installed there has priority over similarly-named stuff >> in /usr. >> > > That's the problem. The gtk+2.10 in /usr/local will be seen before the > gtk+2.8 in /usr, and programs that need gtk+2.8 won't work correctly.
The latter statement is quite exaggerating, since gtk+2.x releases have always been upward compatible. However, there is another reason not to install gtk+2.10 (or other libraries, for that matter) into /usr/local: when you later upgrade to Lenny and forget to uninstall the local library first, programs built against gtk+2.12 will fail miserably. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
