Re: error building git head GTK on OS X ... IM symbols missing etc.

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

On Oct 27, 2009, at 2:06 AM, Kristian Rietveld wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:50 AM, Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com 
> > wrote:
> > just tried a jhbuild of gtk on OS X (tiger). things went well until  
> > it
> > got to the link stage in the input methods code. i got a large number
> > of messages of this form, one for each (every?) IM module:
> >
> > does anybody have any clues what this might be? the missing symbol is
> > always _res_9_init
>
> See bug 586510.   It appears that on Tiger we need to explicitly link
> against libresolv, this is not needed on Leopard and higher.  I also
> reported this when I ran into it (bug 590482), there seems to be a
> patch which has not been reviewed yet.  Unless the GLib maintainers
> object I will review and commit a patch for this then :)

For the record, 586150.

Looks like Paul and Dan Winship have taken up the matter there.

Regards,
John Ralls