Re: [Visualpython-users] Building visual on SuSE 9.2 Pro

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Thanks again, Jonathan.  I'll track down Gtk 1.2.x -devel package;  if
it's not on SuSE 9.2, I have earlier releases 9.1 and 8.0.  If
necessary, I'll download it from the gtk.org site.

Stan

> On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 16:57 -0500, Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote:

> 
> Gtk+ 2.x is a completely different package from Gtk+ 1.2.  VPython needs
> Gtk+ 1.2.x.  You need to get the development package for Gtk+ 1.x, _NOT_
> 2.x.
> 
> Python does not provide a .pc file for pkg-config.  Visual's configure
> script uses other means to figure out the information it needs to
> compile against Python.
> 
> 
> > So I tried "pkg-config --modversion gtk+-2.0" and wahoo!  I got a reply
> > of "2.4.9".
> >    It seems to me that the gtk+ package in this distribution is named
> > gtk+-2.0.  Probably this was a change made by the gtk development team
> > in this new release level 2.x.x.  I doubt that Novell/SuSE made such a
> > name change to this application package.   Maybe I can satisfy the
> > configure script by creating some links to give more generic alias names
> > to the actual packages, but I don't know the extent to which I have to
> > rename things (directories, files, libraries, etc.) and what that might
> > break.  Most likely a small change to the configure script and makefile
> > will handle this name discrepancy for all who use this and other
> > distributions having the 2.x.x releases of gtk.
> > 
> > Stan
> 
> This won't work.  Gtk+ 2.x is both ABI and API incompatible with Gtk+
> 1.2, which is why the Gtk+ developers raised the major version number.
> 
> I do not have access to a SUSE 9.2 system to figure out what the right
> package is, and Novell/SUSE does not make this information publicly
> available, as far as I can see.  So, you will have to figure out which
> package provides the development versions of the libraries for Gtk+ 1.2.
> The last thing that I heard was that the package was named "gtk+-devel",
> which is why I mentioned that name in the INSTALL.txt file.  When you
> find out what the right package is for SUSE 9.2, please let me know so
> that I can update the installation notes.
> 
> Sorry,
> Jonathan
> 
> 
> 
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