Re: GTk/Glib 2.2 Install Problem

[jason healy <jason healy optusnet com au>]

Thanks for the suggestions. This is what I eventually tried (unfortunately)

First I set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/local/lib and executed ldconfig

I then recompiled my test program and it now picks up the latest version 
of Glib.

I then built and installed ATK and GTK and repeated the above steps.

My GTK programs pick up the correct libraries and run, however I now 
have some new problems,

   1. My X login screen no longer has any text prompts on it - only the 
username and password entry
   2. Some apps are no longer working for example GEdit no longer runs 
but crashes with the following ouput

       (gedit:2498): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtktextbuffer.c: line 334 
(set_table): asser
tion `buffer->tag_table == NULL' failed

   (gedit:2498): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot create instance of 
abstract (non-i
nstantiatable) type `GtkWidget'

Does this mean that the binary libraries generated where not backwards 
compatable ?
I don't seem to be able to go back  ie by resetting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to 
/usr/lib and rerunning ldconfig.


Jean Bréfort wrote:

> Le mer 19/05/2004 à 06:04, ramprasad a écrit :
>  
>
> > Hi,
> >    Set the path of glib2.0.pc file
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > Thanks
> > Ramprasad
> >    
>
> I don't think this will be enough. It is difficult to have a stable
> system with two versions of the same library (as libglib-2.0). If
> setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable does not work, you can try to use
> --rpath at link time:
> LDFLAGS="--rpath /usr/local/lib" ./configure;make
> I found that in the ld documentation, but never tried it.
>
> The best solution is most probably to delete the old glib-2.0. If
> updated packages exist for your distrib, try to use them. Otherwise,
> you'll have to configure with the --prefix=/usr option (if you can
> remove the original packages before, it is much better).
>
>  
>
> > jason healy wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > I'm a bit new to Linux, and am having a problem installing GTK+2.2 
> > > (have tried the latest 2.4 several times which has resulted in a OS 
> > > reinstall ).
> > >
> > > I have downloaded the following source packages:
> > >    gtk+-2.2.4.tar.gz
> > >  glib-2.2.3.tar.gz
> > >  atk-1.2.4.tar.gz
> > >  pkgconfig-0.14.0.tar.gz
> > >
> > >
> > > I first built pkg-config with no problems. I then built glib as 
> > > directed (./configure, make and make install) and set the environment 
> > > variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
> > >
> > > I can then execute pkg-config --cflags --libs glib-2.0 and get the output
> > >
> > >  -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include  
> > > -L/usr/local/lib -lglib-2.0
> > >
> > > I then try and install atk but this fails at the configure stage. It 
> > > reports
> > >
> > >  checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0...
> > >  *** 'pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0' returned 2.2.3, but GLIB (2.0.6)
> > >  *** 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
> > >
> > > It would seem that the test application in the configure script is 
> > > linking against the wrong version of GLIB.
> > >
> > > I built and ran the following test program (cut down version of whats 
> > > in configure)
> > >
> > >  #include <glib.h>
> > >  #include <stdio.h>
> > >  #include <stdlib.h>
> > >
> > >  int
> > >  main ()
> > >  {
> > >          printf("%d.%d.%d\n", glib_major_version, glib_minor_version,
> > >  glib_micro_version);
> > >    return 1;
> > >  }
> > >
> > > and used ldd with the following output
> > >
> > >  ldd test1
> > >          libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x40021000)
> > >          libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0x4008c000)
> > >          libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4013e000)
> > >          libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x4015f000)
> > >          libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40167000)
> > >          /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
> > >
> > > which is the old library (I checked the file date and time). WHy is it 
> > > linking against the old library in /usr/lib rather than /usr/local/lib 
> > > ? How do I remove the old version of the library ? I tried removing 
> > > them temporarliy, the source compiled and linked but failed to run 
> > > correctly as it couldn't find the library.
> > > Does this mean that the program always built against the right 
> > > libraries but loaded the wrong ones at execution - am I misising an 
> > > environment variable for searching for libraries?
> > >
> > > Have also tried running ldconfig -n /usr/local/lib and have alseo 
> > > tried editing /etc/ld.so.conf with no difference?
> > >
> > > Any help would be appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Jason
> > > jason healy optusnet com au
> > >
> > >
> > >
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