On Jan 24, 2010, at 7:01 PM, Michael A. Peters wrote:
glib is set up so that you can install parallel versions.
Get the src.rpm from a newer distro, change the name to compat-glib2 and tweak the spec file to build with the changed name and add
Provides: glib2 = %{version}
(and for devel - Provides glib2-devel = %{version}
Build it and it should install parallel to the stock glib2.
Of course, you may need to do the same thing with some dependencies just to get the compat-glib2 to build.
I might have a spec file for updated glib2 sitting around somewhere, but I stopped using CentOS for desktop so if that is one of the libs I had updated for myself, it may be older than 2.16 (I seem to remember doing
Thank you for the pointers, I'll look into that approach.
Brian