I have been able to install Xscreensaver-4.09 (the latest version as of the date when I have sent this mail), with GTK+-2.2.1 on Solaris 2.8. It was really a tiring job, therefore I want to share what I have done to be able to install this tool:
1. Platform is Sun Solaris 2.8. 2. C Compiler is GCC v3.2 (http://gcc.gnu.org) 3. Not to mention, I have installed make-3.80, m4-1.4, autoconf-2.57, automake-1.7.3 (http://www.gnu.org). Some tarballs require "aclocal-1.4" instead of "aclocal" and "automake-1.4" instead of "automake" in $PATH, therefore I have manually created symbolic link to "aclocal-1.4" and "automake-1.4". (I don't know if this is automatically done-able during installation of these programs) "configure" script of autoconf, automake produces such Makefile's, in which they have PERL= identifier to show the full path of Perl. I have renamed it with "PERL = <perl-path> -I<perl_package_path>". The configure-make dance could not generate the -I option correctly, therefore I had developed just a small Perl script that is run between "configure" and "make" of the tools above. This can be done in all tarball installations, where Makefile's have this feature. 4. zlib-1.1.4 has been installed (http://www.gzip.org/lib). It is dependency of libpng. 5. libpng-1.2.5 has been installed (http://http.libpng.org). It is dependency of gtk. 6. libtiff-3.60-beta has been installed (http://www.libtiff.org). It is dependency of gtk. Its installation cannot copy *.h header files in tarball, to <--prefix>/include directory. that's why GTK configure complains about it with "Cannot load TIFF Loader...". Therefore I have manually copied all header files, because each header calls the other. Also, I have copied libjpeg.a manually, to <--prefix>/lib directory. 7. JPEG library jpegsrc-6b has been installed (ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/). It is dependency of gtk and Xscreensaver. Its installation cannot copy *.h header files in tarball, to <--prefix>/include directory. That's why GTK configure complains about it with "Cannot load JPEG Loader...". Therefore I have manually copied all header files, because each header calls the other. Also, I have copied libjpeg.a manually, to <--prefix>/lib directory. Another workaround has just been announced, which was the best one, but it was too late for me to try it: (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2003-April/msg00024.html) 8. libtool-1.4.3 has been installed (http://www.gnu.org). 9. pkg-config 0.15.0 has been installed (http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/). It is the dependency of glib. PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable -must- be set to <--prefix>/lib/pkgconfig directory. This is required by gtk. Before "configure-make" dance, add the three lines stated in README file, to the end of configure.in. 10. glib-2.2.1 has been installed (ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.2). It is dependency of gtk. 11. pango-1.2.1 has been installed (ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.2). It is dependency of gtk. 12. atk-1.2.0 has been installed (ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.2). It is dependency of gtk. 13. gtk-2.2.1 has been installed (ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.2). It is dependency of Xscreensaver. 14. libxml2-2.5.5 has been installed (http://www.xmlsoft.org). It is dependency of Xscreensaver. 15. python-2.2.2 has been installed (http://www.python.org). It is dependency of libglade. 16. pythonxml-0.8.2 has been installed (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pyxml/PyXML-0.8.2.tar.gz). It is dependency of libglade. 17. libglade-2.0.1 has been installed (ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.2/2.2.1/sources/libglade-2.0.1.tar.bz2). It is dependency of Xscreensaver. FINALLY WE ARE READY TO INSTALL XSCREENSAVER!! 18. Xscreensaver-4.09 has been installed ( http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver). Since I have used Solaris' gettext and libiconv, I had to to do following: a. copy configure to "configure.original". b. change "#define ENABLE_NLS 1" with "#undef ENABLE_NLS". (http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=19473) c. configure script has been called in this way: ./configure --prefix=<install_dir> --with-gtk --with-jpeg --with-xml \ --without-motif d. Add to the first line of intltool-merge -I<perl-package-dir> option. e. make f. install NOW YOU CAN USE XSCREENSAVER WITH GTK!! Comments: GTK+ library has been only used in Xscreensaver demo. In the real program (ie. during real screensaver locking) GTK is never used. This can be proven by "ldd `which xscreensaver` and all hacks in <--prefix>/lib/xscreensaver directory. None of them is dependent upon GTK. Only xscreensaver-demo is dependent of GTK. It took 2 months for me to understand to flow above. Utku _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
