Re: running GTK

[bill-auger]

without looking into this at all, there are a few remarks i
could make

for any project which publishes versioned release tarballs, the
VCS should be of no interest to any user - generally, the VCS
code is of interest, only to those wishing to contribute to the
code-base itself - so, when reporting bugs, one should always
try to reproduce the bug with a versioned release

where gnu-smalltalk is an exception to that general rule, is
because there has not been a stable release in a long time - the
GTK parts of the stable release (3.2) are broken on many distros
- arch for example, packages the "alpha" release 3.2.91, which
works perfectly well - that really should have become the stable
release a long time ago

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/smalltalk.git/snapshot/smalltalk-3.2.91.tar.gz
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/smalltalk.git/snapshot/smalltalk-3.2.91.tar.gz.sig

that tarball corresponds to 'tag' 3.2.91 of the git sources - i
suggest that both of you try that version, before continuing
these threads - IMHO, any bugs reported today, should be based
on the 3.2.91 release

actually, arch builds from
commit=edb6bad6950c787f4b4c7f8ac5f7047ac1e8b984 ;
but that is only because the tests in 3.2.91 fail on arch -
they still refer to it as v3.2.91 

one other remark is that the build recipe given does not actually
install the program - you should generally run `sudo make
install` instead of `make install` - some programs can run
"in-tree" but other are not designed to