Re: [TCLUG:15891] GTK+ and RPM

["Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <carls@agritech.com>]

        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. :)

on a somewhat different note:
www.compupic.com has a very cool image (and text document!) management
product (tho it is 'backdoor payware'... it's free in theory, but if you
ever look at a .gif file, you have to pay them a license fee after 30 days,
because of the Unisys patent); too bad it's a CPU hog. ;(

Carl Soderstrom
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