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Eren Tantekin
Asked: 2011-11-07 09:56:53 +0800 CST

Compiling GTK2 from source

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I download and try to compile the source code for GTK2:

sudo apt-get build-dep libgtk2.0-0
sudo apt-get source libgtk2.0-0   
cd gtk+2.0-2.24.6/

./configure --prefix=/usr
make

And I get an error:

In file included from gtkquery.c:26:0:
gtkquery.h:31:2: error: #error "gtkfilechooserprivate.h is not supported API for general use"

Interestingly, I can compile GTK3 with no problems at all with the same steps above. I am using Oneiric.

If i try debuild, I get thousands of

dpkg-source: error: cannot represent change to gtk+2.0-2.24.6/something/something: binary file contents changed
11.10

1 Answers

  1. This happens because the source package that you've downloaded has pre-set flags that are passed to configure, along with a number of other steps that are laid out in debian/rules. Prior to building, if you've made changes to the package you should add a new revision in debian/changelog

    To build the source package that you've downloaded:

    sudo apt-get install devscripts build-essential
cd gtk+2.0-2.24.6/
debuild

    This will compile & produce binary packages from the build in the parent directory.

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