Re: trauma spliting source into multiple files and applying autotools

[Braden McDaniel <braden endoframe com>]

On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 12:20 +1000, Mick wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:17:32 -0400
> Braden McDaniel <braden endoframe com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 11:22 +1000, Mick wrote:
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > > compiling with:
> > > gcc -Wall -g -o tutor main.c -export-dynamic `pkg-config --cflags
> > > --libs gtk+-2.0` produces an executable that runs just as expected.
> > > 
> > > When I split the .c file into the main function as main.c and the
> > > 'callbacks' into callback.c and create the Makefile.am,
> > > configure.in, etc compilation runs without error and the exec runs
> > > but hangs after displaying: Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_show:
> > > assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
> > > 
> > > on:
> > >  gtk_widget_show(chat_window);
> 
> Thanks for your help and critique, I've taken your advice on board:
> 
> > You need to add -export-dynamic to AM_LDFLAGS in Makefile.am.
> src/Makefile.am
> <code>
> bin_PROGRAMS = nuchimp
> 
> nuchimp_SOURCES = \
> 	callback.c callback.h \
> 	main.c main.h 
> 
> AM_CPPFLAGS $(GTK_CFLAGS)
> AM_LDFLAGS -export-dynamic

You're missing some '=' signs here; e.g.:

        AM_CPPFLAGS = $(GTK_CFLAGS)

That's probably the source of your error.

> I removed several paragraphs that defined install/uninstall after
> getting this error but it remains.

Looking at Automake's output can be very educational; but unless you
really know what you're doing, you probably shouldn't bother editing it.
If the generated Makefile has errors, it's almost certainly because
there were errors in the input.

-- 
Braden McDaniel <braden endoframe com>