Re: [TCLUG:15891] GTK+ and RPM

[Troy Johnson <john1536@tc.umn.edu>]

No, not at all.

kyle matteson wrote:
> am i alone in saying i'm a fan of compiling things myself??

> Ben Kochie wrote:
> > such is the wonderfull life of debian, things in the right -dev packages,
> > in the right spot, when you need it.. all via apt-get :)

> > On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> > >         yeah, RPMs are there primarily to keep you from shooting yourself in
> > > the foot...unfortunately, they often keep you from shooting *anything else*.
> > >         my example:
> > >         I wanted to compile the GTKSee image viewer. it needs libjpeg,
> > > libtiff, and libpng, to support those formats (otherwise it just displays
> > > gifs). ./configure doesn't find those.
> > > so i make sure I have the RPMS for them installed.
> > > ./configure still can't find the libraries.
> > > "OH!" i think, and remember that RedSmack separates the RPMS into -devel
> > > packages,         for the files you need if you want to compile against
> > > those libraries.
> > > so I DL (thanks Real-Time!) the -devel versions of those libraries and
> > > install them.
> > > ./configure *still* can't find the libraries to compile against. ;(
> > > so I s**tcan the whole idea and look elsewhere for image viewers.
> > > maybe I'm just looking in the wrong place, and the ./configure is screwed
> > > up; but I've seen RPMS put stuff in not-quite-expected places before, so
> > > it's easy to blame them. :)

	<a href="http://umn.edu/~john1536">Troy Johnson</a>

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