Re: final gtk+maverick battles

2014-02-19 Thread Michael Torrie
On 02/17/2014 05:05 AM, Bric wrote: FWIF: with this drive to keep upgrading, I just lost a critical hour of sleep (I start new class material today and needed to be rested) because I messed up the one and only thing you should NEVER mess up in your system: network (wifi) connection (if

Re: final gtk+maverick battles

2014-02-17 Thread Bric
On 02/16/2014 10:24 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: On 02/16/2014 04:30 AM, Bric wrote: Nonetheless, I run ./configure in gtk+ git, and I am still getting unmet dependencies: configure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0 = 2.39.5atk = 2.7.5pango = 1.32.4cairo = 1.12.0 cairo-gobject =

Re: final gtk+maverick battles

2014-02-17 Thread Bric
On 02/17/2014 04:30 AM, Bric wrote: On 02/16/2014 10:24 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: On 02/16/2014 04:30 AM, Bric wrote: Nonetheless, I run ./configure in gtk+ git, and I am still getting unmet dependencies: configure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0 = 2.39.5atk = 2.7.5pango =

Re: final gtk+maverick battles

2014-02-17 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 11:05 PM, Bric b...@flight.us wrote: FWIF: with this drive to keep upgrading, I just lost a critical hour of sleep (I start new class material today and needed to be rested) because I messed up the one and only thing you should NEVER mess up in your system: network

Re: final gtk+maverick battles

2014-02-16 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 10:30 PM, Bric b...@flight.us wrote: (Unity completely and majorly sucks, by the way. And the upgrade has wiped out major settings, like /etc/bash.bashrc (!??), gnome panels, and lots more!) Unrelated to your main issues, but I'll put in a plug for Xfce. When Ubuntu

Re: final gtk+maverick battles

2014-02-16 Thread David Marceau
On 02/16/2014 06:30 AM, Bric wrote: My old system was, indeed, trashed. An accidental re-boot proved that it wasn't going into GUI mode anymore. Thus, I upgraded, and am now on Ubuntu 12. Now upgrade a few more times to get to trusty(14.04) to get the latest bells and whistles. Then there

Re: final gtk+maverick battles

2014-02-16 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Sun, 16 Feb 2014, Bric wrote: On 02/14/2014 02:54 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 4:52 AM, Bric b...@flight.us wrote: GTK on MacOSX requires a few dependencies to build and those script download them all and build them with clang default compiler without too many issues.

Re: final gtk+maverick battles

2014-02-16 Thread David Marceau
On 02/16/2014 03:05 PM, Bric wrote: On 02/16/2014 10:33 AM, David Marceau wrote: On 02/16/2014 06:30 AM, Bric wrote: My old system was, indeed, trashed. An accidental re-boot proved that it wasn't going into GUI mode anymore. Thus, I upgraded, and am now on Ubuntu 12. Now upgrade a few

Re: final gtk+maverick battles

2014-02-16 Thread Michael Torrie
On 02/16/2014 04:30 AM, Bric wrote: Nonetheless, I run ./configure in gtk+ git, and I am still getting unmet dependencies: configure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0 = 2.39.5atk = 2.7.5pango = 1.32.4cairo = 1.12.0 cairo-gobject = 1.12.0 gdk-pixbuf-2.0 = 2.27.1) were

Re: final gtk+maverick battles

2014-02-14 Thread Gabriele Greco
barely compiled gcc 4.8.2 (make install first failed, then, after ldconfig, it succeeded) The upgraded gcc doesn't seem to have an effect on my gtk+ woes. (!) :-(( (unless make is still using the old gcc, but I don't see an indication of that) Same /bin/sh: --: invalid option error

Re: final gtk+maverick battles

2014-02-14 Thread Bric
On 02/14/2014 10:38 AM, Gabriele Greco wrote: barely compiled gcc 4.8.2 (make install first failed, then, after ldconfig, it succeeded) The upgraded gcc doesn't seem to have an effect on my gtk+ woes. (!) :-(( (unless make is still using the old gcc, but I don't see an

Re: final gtk+maverick battles

2014-02-14 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, Bric wrote: On 02/14/2014 10:38 AM, Gabriele Greco wrote: barely compiled gcc 4.8.2 (make install first failed, then, after ldconfig, it succeeded) The upgraded gcc doesn't seem to have an effect on my gtk+ woes. (!) :-(( (unless make is still using

Re: final gtk+maverick battles

2014-02-14 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 4:52 AM, Bric b...@flight.us wrote: GTK on MacOSX requires a few dependencies to build and those script download them all and build them with clang default compiler without too many issues. https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show//Projects/GTK+/OSX/Building Sorry, you

Re: final gtk+maverick battles

2014-02-14 Thread Bric
On 02/14/2014 01:27 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote: On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, Bric wrote: On 02/14/2014 10:38 AM, Gabriele Greco wrote: barely compiled gcc 4.8.2 (make install first failed, then, after ldconfig, it succeeded) The upgraded gcc doesn't seem to have an effect on my gtk+ woes. (!) :-((

Re: final gtk+maverick battles

2014-02-14 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Bric b...@flight.us wrote: But are we certain at this point that my latest compile failure is caused by an old package(s)? Easiest way to find out is probably to spin yourself up a newer OS (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise or 13.10 Saucy, or maybe Debian Wheezy, which

Re: final gtk+maverick battles

2014-02-14 Thread Chris Angelico
Incidentally: On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Bric b...@flight.us wrote: It's rather bewildering that the make interpreter can't print out more specifics about the breakage... Makefiles are notorious for being hard to debug, partly because they're often generated by a script. It's almost

final gtk+maverick battles

2014-02-13 Thread Bric
thought I'd move out to a new thread, since we are past the Pango issue in reckless abandonment (sliding irrevocably down the slope of system trashing) I manually moved *glib* files and directories from under /usr/local/lib, to a hiding place, then quickly re-installed (make install) glib