Re: More patches

[Denis Oliver Kropp <dok directfb org>]

Yevgen Muntyan wrote:
> Denis Oliver Kropp wrote:
> > Sven Neumann wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 06:06 +0100, Denis Oliver Kropp wrote:
> > > > gtk-add-glib-libs-to-executables.patch
> > > >     This was a scary build issue. I installed glib, pango and gtk, 
> > > > but kept using
> > > >     my system's atk. When gtk-query-immodules-2.0 was built it 
> > > > failed to link as
> > > >     it missed a lot of new functions in the glib, e.g. 
> > > > glib_checksum_new(). I found
> > > >     out that it somehow tried to link against my system's glib, 
> > > > though using pkg-config
> > > >     the correct new glib was returned. Not sure if it's libstuhl or 
> > > > just the order
> > > >     on the linker command line, but adding $(GLIB_LIBS) explicitly 
> > > > did the trick.
> > > >       
> > > I did not apply this one as it affects other backends as well. Will
> > > leave it up to the GTK+ developers to decide if this is the right thing
> > > to do or not...
> > >     
> >
> > Ok, thanks! I think linking against GLIB_LIBS could only be a problem
> > if the version found by pkg-config if older than the one used by atk,
> > pango etc. For me it was the other way around which makes more sense.
> >   
>
> 'rm system_prefix/lib/*.la' [1] and try again? This issue isn't
> directfb-specific.

I'm wondering if an .la file ever did any good to me... not to mention
the shell script that takes longer than gcc itself on many platforms.

--
Best regards,
  Denis Oliver Kropp

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