[ILUG] Compiling Pango 1.4

[Liam Bedford]

bobb wrote:

>Richard Eibrand hath declared on Wednesday the 14 day of April 2004  :-:
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>>I'm trying to compile the latest gtk+ (ver. 2.4), but I'm having problems 
>>getting the required pango (1.4) to compile. I have compiled and installed 
>>glib2.4. atk, the other requirement compiles and installs fine. When I go 
>>to run configure for pango, it gives me the following error
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>Where did you install glib2.4 ?
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>>The old version of glib is still installed via rpm, but if I try and 
>>remove it (via synaptic), it gives a phletora of other progs that require 
>>glib 1.2.10-10.
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>>Any pointers as to what I can do to resolve this?
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>Are there any options that you can give to configure so it will look
>in different directories for libraries ?
>Or perhaps set CFLAGS ?
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>export CFLAGS="-L/path/to/glib2.4/lib -I/path/to/glib2.4/include"
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>There are often various ways of poking it in the right direction...
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glib1 and glib2 co-exist.

If you really want to do this, use garnome or jhbuild or one of the gnome
build systems. They'll make sure you have the right versions of pkgconfig
autoconf, automake etc.

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>Actually, as a matter of interest, would people have any good recomendations
>on how to start using (and breaking :)  the automake/autoconf/&co build 
>tools...?  preferably of the dead tree variety...
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Kevin wrote a talk.. www.doolin.com somewhere.

L.