Bug 38812

Summary: README - TVT21: Launching Eclipse on RedHat 8.0 with Gtk 2.2
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Hwa Truong <truonghw>
Component: UIAssignee: Nick Edgar <n.a.edgar>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P1 CC: camle, eclipse.felipe, jeem, jeffmcaffer, Kevin_Haaland, n.a.edgar, Tod_Creasey
Version: 2.1Keywords: nl, readme
Target Milestone: 2.1.1   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux-GTK   
Whiteboard:

Description Hwa Truong CLA 2003-06-11 19:12:02 EDT
Nick,

Would you please readme this information?

Please execute the following command prior to launching Eclipse on RedHat 8.0 
Professional with GTK 2.2:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<path to gtk>

ex:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/, where /usr/local/lib/ is where the gtk 
libraries are stored

Note: This must be done for every new terminal session.
Comment 1 Nick Edgar CLA 2003-06-12 13:01:13 EDT
SWT team, please confirm whether this should be added.
Comment 2 Steve Northover CLA 2003-06-16 12:11:03 EDT
Felipe, is this the right information?  Please work it out with Nick ASAP.  
Thanks.
Comment 3 Nick Edgar CLA 2003-06-16 12:28:02 EDT
The above only applies when GTK 2.2.x has been installed by manually 
downloading and compiling it (as will have to be done by DBCS users running 
RedHat 8).

Revised wording for the readme:

Users who download and compile new versions of GTK, for example to gain DBCS 
support in GTK 2.2.x on RedHat 8.0, will need to ensure that the correct GTK 
libraries are listed in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable.  By default, 
the compiled GTK libraries are put in /user/local/lib/, so the following would 
need to be executed prior to launching Eclipse:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/

Note: This must be done for every new terminal session.
Comment 4 Nick Edgar CLA 2003-06-17 23:34:41 EDT
Added the following to the R2.1.1 readme.

<h4>Compiling new versions of GTK (Linux GTK only)</h4>
<p>
Users who download and compile new versions of GTK, for example to gain DBCS 
support in GTK 2.2, will need to ensure that the correct GTK libraries are 
listed
in the <tt>LD_LIBRARY_PATH</tt> environment variable.  
By default, the compiled GTK libraries are put in <tt>/user/local/lib/</tt>, 
so the following would need to be executed prior to launching Eclipse 
(Note: this must be done for every new terminal session):
<br>
<tt>export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/</tt>
</p>