On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 11:57:15PM +1100, James McDonald wrote: >Folks, > >I just compiled and installed the following libs and there dependencies >on rh8.0 > >gtk+-2.2.1 >glib-2.2.1 > >I needed them to compile dia 0.91 (great drawing program that now has >cisco shapes woo hoo) > >I used ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc for all libs. > >Now I get as a standard muppet user.... > >(gnome-background-properties:24030): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot >create instance of abstract (non-instantiatable) type `GtkWidget' > >As root I can launch the gnome-*-* applets without the complaint and no >segfault...
Did you run ldconfig after building the new libraries? Are then libraries in the normal place? Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?'' -- Patrick Henry June 9, 1788, in the Virginia Convention on the ratification of the Constitution. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
