GTK+ problems on Red Hat 8.0

[Jeff Franks <jcf tpg com au>]

Hi,

I was wondering: Is GTK+-2.1 and/or the current CVS version binary 
incompatible with GTK+-2.0.6?

I've had a few problems with GTK+ on Red Hat 8.0 and I'm not sure where 
the problem is. After installing Red Hat 8.0, I found the TextView 
widget example in the gtk-demo program no longer displayed the example 
of international and right to left text properly, just blocks of small 
binary images where the text should be. It worked fine with the same 
GTK+ version on Red Hat 7.3.

Thinking upgrading to the latest GLIB/GTK+ version would help, first 
2.1, then the latest CVS version, I found that many programs now crashed 
with the following message from the g_type_create_instance() function in 
gtype.c :

glib-object warning - "cannot create instance of abstract 
(non-instantiatable) type GtkWidget"

Does any one know if this is problem with Red Hat 8.0, GTK+ or perhaps me.

Jeff Franks.