Well, I guess it's all my fault. The thing I like about Linux is that you don't *HAVE* to update your system on a regular basis and still have a nice secure system that does exactly what you want. I built LFS in the fall of 2001 into early 2002.
bash-2.05a$ ls -l /etc/lfs-3.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 22 2002 /etc/lfs-3.1 I've been playing with GTK lately, and enjoy doing things. (Both small utilities at work, as well as personal entertainment things for myself at home.) I wanted to try my hand at gtkmm to try and advance my career in C++ since I'm just a C programmer at this point. (And that career seems to be dying here in my town in Ohio, USA.) So, try to upgrade to gtk+-2.6.4 since I was only at gtk+-2.0.9. Well, download atk/pango/glib/gtk, and away I go. Nope, gotta reload fontconfig. Oh, gotta get the new freetype. Oh, well my Xft from X4.3.0 isn't good enough, so pango won't build the Xft backend. And with that, GTK blows up and won't build because pango doesn't have an Xft backend, therefore I can't build for an XWindows build. So, Im at a crossroads. Either give up on Gnome and it's 4gazillion libraries that are needed to create HelloWorld in GTK and move to QT when I need only 4 huge libraries. Or, I have to start from scratch and build a brand new LFS 6.0 system in my (nonexistent [job/married/14mo son]) spare time. (And hell no, am I going back to M$!) Now I wish I had done an /opt/gnome directory, because I could just rm -rf the sucker, and start from scratch. I might have all my install logs so I might be able to do something like that at least, but if I do that, I lose my GnuCash which has my home finances budget in it for at least 6 months before I get time to rebuild every minor thing that will be needed for GTK. Comments? Suggestions? Good Job Offers in SW Ohio for awesome C programmers with great analytical skills? :) Thank you for letting me rant. :) John LFS 3.1 - Mar 2002 Dayton, OH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
