Re: Bug in configure

[David Odin <David Odin bigfoot com>]

On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 02:17:59AM +0200, Tim Janik wrote:
> On Wed, 12 May 1999, David Odin wrote:
> 
> > 
> >  Since, this hasn't been fixed in the 1.2.3, I repost this mail,
> >  should I CC: it to Owen Taylor?
> 
> nope, the core gtk developers are monitoring this list pretty concentrated ;)
>
  Sorry for being unfaithful ;)

> > -------------- Beginning of reposted message --------------------------------
> > 
> >   Hi,
> > 
> >   A friend of mine tried to compile gtk+-1.2.1 without installing glib-1.2.1.
> > 
> > glib-1.2.1 is well compiled in /usr/src/glib-1.2.1 but not installed, and
> > gtk+-1.2.1 was configured with: ./configure --with-glib=../glib-1.2.1
> > 
> 
> the baseline is, --with-glib isn't really supported in 1.2, tell your friend
> to simply install glib under the same prefix as gtk and go without --with-glib.
>
  If so, I guess this option shouldn't be in the configure script anymore, or
  at least be commented out, to protect people from using it.

> ---
> ciaoTJ
> 
                Regards,

                             DindinX
 
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