Re: release thoughts

[John Darrington]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 06:50:45PM -0400, Jason Stover wrote:
     I'm going through the trouble of installing pspp on a student's
     machine. This student has a recent installation of Freespire.  The
     problem is its version of gtk: 1.something, in /usr/lib.
     
     So now we're installing gtk 2.12, but I don't want to install it in
     /usr/lib for fear of clobbering other programs. So it will go into
     /usr/local/lib.

This sounds reasonable.
     
     In the past, on every system where I've tested this, pspp will not
     find the newer version of gtk. configure just quits when it sees
     /usr/lib/libgtk* and doesn't bother looking in /usr/local/lib.

If that's true, then it's a bug.  gtk-1.x uses a completely different
namespace from the gtk+-2.x libraries.  So if the existance of 1.x
has any effect on ./configure, then I'd be very surprised.  Now if
there is (say) gtk+-2.8 installed concurrently with gtk+-2.12 then
that might cause problems, but even then, /usr/local should be
prefered over /usr

Can you go ahead and try it, and send us any errors that result.

J'

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