On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 12:11:15 -0400, you wrote:

>On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 10:22:42AM +0200, Tom Berger wrote:
>> On Mit, 21 Apr 1999, you wrote: / Am Mit, 21 Apr 1999 schrieben Sie:
>> > On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 11:42:08PM +0200, Tom Berger wrote:
>> > > Hi!
>> > > Boy, what a mess...
>> > > I installed/upgraded gtk 1.2.0 and glib 1.2.0. The gtk-packages
>> > > (libs+devel) were vanilla Redhat rpms, glib had to be compiled because the
>> > > RH lib-rpm is linked against some strange glibc version (pre-dependent
>> > > libraries have a CC2 tag *shrug*, devel installed fine, though).
>> > > Trouble is I don't get *anything* compiled which is linked against gtk
>> > > 1.2.0.
>> > 
>> > [ big snip ...  sorry Tom! ]
>> > 
>> > > Last chance would be compiling gtk by myself, too. Duh... Is there anyone
>> > > in here who got *all* the rpms installed (gtk/gtk-devel, glib/glib-devel)
>> > > and has since then successfully compiled a source against them? If so,
>> > > would you please tell me as exactly as possible which versions you did
>> > > use? 
>> > 
>> > Here are the packages that I downloaded from the GNOME mirrors.  I _have_
>> > been able to compile things against these packages.  Good luck!
>> > 
>> > 
>> [big snip ... sorry Steve! :-)]
>> 
>> Thanks a lot! BTW: do you have a T1 or are you affiliated with one of the
>> GNOME guys? Looks like a monster download...
>
>Heh, nope!  It's just me and my little 56k modem.  From looking at the
>backups, the whole thing is around 30M of download.  Not TOO bad.  Of
>course, you probably don't need to grab ALL of them if you're not interested
>in running GNOME.  If you just want to be able to compile glib/gtk+
>programs, you could probably get away with downloading the glib-1.2, glib10,
>gtk+-1.2, gtk+10 and the appropriate -devel packages.
>
>Good luck!

Already done that, np compiles like a charm now :-). 
Well, 30 MB are not that bad, it's less than MS Exploder 5... What
about stability and general usuability of GNOME, is it worth dl'ing?

Regards

tom
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