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Date:      Mon, 1 May 2000 09:30:53 -0500
From:      Ade Lovett <ade@lovett.com>
To:        Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        Kenny Drobnack <kdrobnac@mission.mvnc.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: gtk FreeBSD and Linux
Message-ID:  <20000501093053.C77873@lovett.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.21.0004302251400.28698-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>; from sprice@hiwaay.net on Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 10:55:28PM -0500
References:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.1000430234008.4524A-100000@mission.mvnc.edu> <Pine.OSF.4.21.0004302251400.28698-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>

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On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 10:55:28PM -0500, Steve Price wrote:
> The only reason you have to use the GKT_CONFIG trick above is
> because we support having multiple versions of GTK* installed and
> renaming the gtk*-config scripts is the best way of accomplishing
> this.

It's also worth pointing out that there are a number of boneheaded
GTK/GNOME configure scripts which go through all the trouble
of checking GTK_CONFIG/GLIB_CONFIG, and then go on to explicitly
use 'gtk-config' and 'glib-config' further on in.

Sigh.

-aDe

-- 
Ade Lovett, Austin, TX.


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