[snip] >It may not be the type of thing, a "user" who has an account on a >machine at work does, but compiling gcc from source is much easier than >upgrading gtk, even if you also have to compile binutils.
Perhaps, but I have had little to no trouble building the absolute bleeding edge gtk+ on a RedHat 7.2 system (which has almost no modern libraries). I guess I've build gtk+ enough to not let the 20 or so required library dependancies bother me much. :-> -Ales