Re: [TCLUG:15891] GTK+ and RPM

[kyle matteson <kmatteson@talkware.net>]

am i alone in saying i'm a fan of compiling things myself??

k

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 :)
>
> Thank You,
>         Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)
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>  "Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends."
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> 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. :)
> >
> > 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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