Linking to library when compiling

[hochiha]

Hi!

I just downloaded firefox (3.03) and realized I had to install a newer version of gtk (2.10 or higher). Unfortunately this is not in the repositories (running Debian btw) so this far I've compiled & installed glib (2.18.2) in /opt/gtk-2.14/ (heard from somewhere that you could put what you're compiling and dependencies in one place) without any problems.

So far I've tried to compile gtk with:

$ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/gtk-2.14/lib/pkgconfig"
$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk-2.14

but it stops saying "Requested 'glib-2.0 >= 2.17.6' but version of GLib is 2.16.3". GLib 2.16.3 is the current version installed via synaptic. I'm wondering how i could link correctly to glib 2.18.2 that i compiled?

Thanks in advance, HoChi

[_madman_]

If you run "./configure --help" you should get a lot of options to pass to configure. For example:

LDFLAGS linker flags, e.g. -L<lib dir> if you have libraries in a
nonstandard directory <lib dir>

./configure --prefix=/opt/usr LDFLAGS=-L/opt/path/to/libs/