Re: gdk-pixbuf compilation problems in cvs

[Helmethead <hoshem mel comcen com au>]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 01:02:10AM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> dov imagic weizmann ac il writes:
> > In my never ending compilation problem I have now reached gdk-pixbuf
> > in cvs that though it compiles, doesn't manage to use any of its 
> > modules. This may be seen e.g. by running make-inline-pixbuf which
> > outputs the error:
> > 
> >    Image type 'png' is not supported
> > 
> > on all formats.
> 
> Someone else debugged this the other day, apparently if GLib is built
> without a working GModule implementation then GTK doesn't handle it
> properly. That definitely should not happen with Red Hat (or any
> Linux), so perhaps the problem is broken checks for gmodule in
> glib. Though I don't remember recent changes to those checks, maybe
> someone changed them.

The other thing is if your glib/gtk is/will be installed in a custom --prefix, and $(prefix)/lib isn't in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH or otherwise defaultly accessable at gtk configure time, the gmodule check will fail. bugger ay :)