On Tue, 2014-11-11 at 21:54 -0600, Jeremiah Benham wrote: > I am having a bit of trouble with the linux-x86 gub build. It requires > a higher version of Gtk. I attempted to update gtk3 in gub but ran > into many dependency issues and ultimately got stuck on ORBit2.
this seems surreal - I read that ORBit2 is some gnome "middleware" for CORBA - that gtk should have a dependency on it is clearly not intended. > I just wonder if it would be better if I reverted back to gtk2 like > the darwin and mingw builds? it's certainly ok to do that - though GTK3 only features are starting to accumulate. The latest (which has caused the upgrade requirement I presume) is this choosing of a font. In GTK2 you can't actually get a font name, just a font specification - includes things like "bold" etc - which can't be used directly to select a font for LilyPond. And, of course, palettes are limited to lines or columns in GTK2 because they use a GTK3 grid. > The other option I had in mind was that I have two 150gb hard drives > at my disposal. I could install debian stable and possibly a few other > distros and build it there. Maybe I can install gentoo in a chroot on > one of the drives. Then I can copy all the libs needed into a > directory similar to how it is in the current gub and launch it will a > similar script. If that will works it will save me a lot of work in > the long run. Indeed, in the long run GTK2 will get dropped for GTK3, so working towards a long term solution makes sense. Not having a binary for GNU/Linux while you work on achieving the goal of a GTK3 version seems ok to me - people can (and do) build it for themselves without much difficulty. (In fact, we(?) could provide a one-line commands to get all the dependencies, build and install for various popular distros). Richard _______________________________________________ Denemo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/denemo-devel
