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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>,
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Subject: Re: gtk FreeBSD and Linux
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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

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Ade Lovett, Austin, TX.


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