Re: Do I need a particular version of X for gtk+ ?

[Griff Miller <griff miller positron com>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Griff Miller <griff.miller@positron.com> writes:
> > Havoc, thanks for the suggestion. I tried that, and also tried completely
> > cleaning out the gtk+ directory and untarring the source tarball again,
> > but each time I got the same problem.
> >
> > I also tried gmake - same result.
> >
> > I think I've found a clue, however. Tell me about gtk/gtktypebuiltins.h .
> > How does it get built? What I noticed is that my gtk/gtktypebuiltins.h
> > in my Solaris 2.6 build tree has everything in uppercase, and the
> > gtk/gtktypebuiltins.h in my SunOS build tree has everything in lowercase.
> >
> > Please see the diff I've attached.
> >
> > Thanks! Email cc's appreciated.
> >
> 
> gtktypebuiltins.h is created by an awk script, and apparently your awk
> doesn't like this script.

Bingo. SunOS awk/nawk doesn't understand stuff like toupper.

> Owen suggested that you get a clean copy of the tarball, and use the
> --disable-rebuild option to configure; apparently gtktypebuiltins.h is
> pre-built in the distribution, so if you turn off rebuilding it it
> won't get messed up by the funky awk.

I went one better - I installed gawk, did a make distclean and ran
configure again, and now gtk/gtktypebuiltins.h
looks more appropriate. The make is still grinding away, but I have
hopes of success this time. I will let you know if I do not (have success).

Thanks!

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