[rox-devel] Archive and pygtk notes

[Matthew W. O'P. <wei...@gr...>]

I grabbed the tarballs for Archive, ROX-Lib2, and pygtk from the rox
website recently, installed ROX-Lib2, compiled and installed pygtk using
a prefix of /usr/local (which is in my LD path), and went happily on my
way. I tried un-archiving a couple of tarballs that day, and everything
was hunky dory.

After an interval of a day or two (and several reboots), I had an actual
use for Archive, and went to decompress a tarball... to the sight of no
dialogs... Ignoring it, I went into a terminal and did it manually.

I got to thinking about it today, and realized that I'd had a similar
problem with my gtk2 theme engines a couple days ago... I use a Debian
(sid) system, and I discovered the hard way that I had to compile the
gtk2 theme engines using the same prefix with which gtk2 was compiled,
i.e. /usr. On Debian, any binaries for the distribution are compiled
with the /usr prefix. So I uninstalled pygtk, recompiled with
prefix=/usr, installed -- and voila! it worked fine.

It might be handy to note in the Archive FAQ that pygtk needs to be
compiled in the same prefix as python and/or gtk2 -- simply compiling to
a prefix in the LD path won't work.

--Matthew