From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 10 23:25:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bbnmg1.cns.hp.com (bbnmg1.net.external.hp.com [192.6.76.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48C5E14CCE for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 23:25:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michael_heitmeier@bbn.exch.hp.com) Received: from isoit544.bbn.hp.com (isoit544.bbn.hp.com [15.139.134.127]) by bbnmg1.cns.hp.com (8.8.6 (PHNE_17135)/8.8.5tis) with ESMTP id IAA00657; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 08:25:56 +0100 (MET) Received: from embbnx05.bbn.hp.com (embbnx05.bbn.hp.com [15.139.132.2]) by isoit544.bbn.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 SMKit6.0.6 OpenMail) with ESMTP id IAA06400; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 08:24:59 +0100 (MET) Received: by embbnx05.bbn.hp.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 08:30:02 +0100 Message-ID: <234F92BA3C7BD311BD31009027541A953A53C3@wagner.bbn.hp.com> From: "HEITMEIER, MICHAEL (HP-Germany,ex1)" To: "'John Baldwin'" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: gtk complication Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 08:25:27 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > 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 > -- http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message