Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 08:25:27 +0100 From: "HEITMEIER, MICHAEL (HP-Germany,ex1)" <michael_heitmeier@bbn.exch.hp.com> To: "'John Baldwin'" <jobaldwi@vt.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: gtk complication Message-ID: <234F92BA3C7BD311BD31009027541A953A53C3@wagner.bbn.hp.com>
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Thanks, got it working now. My 3.2 CD's don't seem to have the gtk version I need, that's why I started over by pulling down the complete X source and compiled/installed from scratch. What I was not aware of (still learning!) is that [some/all] libraries don't get installed with only the X binaries. In the end I simply ignored the existing /usr/Xfree86 directory and let 'make install' run it's course. Apparently it happily overwrote the existing X files, everything is working again. Quite amazing, really. -----Original Message----- From: John Baldwin [mailto:jobaldwi@vt.edu] Sent: Mittwoch, 10. November 1999 18:08 To: HEITMEIER, MICHAEL (HP-Germany,ex1) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: gtk complication 3 On 10-Nov-99 HEITMEIER, MICHAEL (HP-Germany,ex1) wrote: > I'am trying to install gtk 1.2.6 and have run into trouble because > the > configure script does not recognise X, which I have installed from > the > FreeBSD 3.3.5 binaries off the Xfree.org web site. Kind folks from > the gtk > mailing list have suggested that the X development headers and/or > libraries > are missing. This is still stuff I struggle with so my first question > is: do > I need to install the X source from > ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3.5/source <ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3.5/source>; > <ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3.5/source <ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3.5/source>; > in order to get > these > libraries? > > How would I go about compiling/installing the source (since due to > size they > come in 3 chunks), would it work (if yes why do they distribute > pre-compiled > binaries?) and what do I do with the existing X installation? > Uninstall/remove first? I'm a little hesitant as you can tell since > I'm > feeling there is a lot of potential to break things... You can either reinstall X from the ports system (which you should also be installing grk from), or you can download the Xprog.tgz from the binaries directory from XFree86.org and install that using extract. > Thanks for any advice! > Michael --- John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu <mailto:jobaldwi@vt.edu> > -- http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/ <http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/>; PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc <http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc>; "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ <http://www.FreeBSD.org/>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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