Re: [Denemo-devel] Building GTK+ to be relocatable

[Richard Shann]

On Tue, 2014-01-21 at 14:53 -0600, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> Its funny that you mentioned all this as I was creating a "bundle" in gub for 
> a linux target. I created a new installer that just simply puts everything in 
> a diectory and then compresses it.
> 
> http://denemo.org/~jjbenham/gub/uploads/denemo-0.0.0-0.linux-x86.tar.xz
> 
> All you have to do is uncompress it and go into denemo-0.0.0 and 
> ./Launch_Denemo.sh. It is more for testing at the moment. Lilypond is not 
> installed in it and the new changes to ./configure don't allow denemo to find 
> my portmidi. There are also some font issues. I can apply these changes to 
> the gtk3 branch but I may have the same problems. The advantage of this 
> approach is that I can execute this "bundle" with a live disto. 

This untars ok, but I get the same bizarre behavior that usr/bin/denemo
exists, is executable but when I try to launch it with ./denemo on the
command line bash reports there is no such executable. I don't think
anyone else has seen this behavior...

Richard



> Jeremiah     
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 12:15:13PM +0000, Richard Shann wrote:
> > I noticed on the building page of the ardour website this:
> > 
> > gtk+
> > 
> >     On OS X, contains several patches need to make GTK+ function
> > correctly for Ardour. Some of these changes break the GTK+ ABI, and so
> > will never be accepted for the GTK+ 2.x releases.
> > 
> >     On both Linux and OS X, contains a patch to allow GTK+ to be fully
> > relocatable. You do NOT need this version of GTK+ on Linux unless you
> > intend to try to build your own binary bundles of Ardour.
> > 
> >     The modified version of GTK+ must be built with the
> > --enable-relocation argument given to the configure command.
> > 
> > This is just gtk2 that they are using. But the contents of the patch
> > might be interesting...
> > 
> > Richard
> > 
> > 
> > 
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