Re: Complile Error

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Steve Boris <zboris ptdprolog net> writes:
> I'm just getting started with GTK and I tried compiling the helloworld 
> program to see if my system( RedHat 7.1 ) is configured correctly and I get 
> this error message
> 
> gcc -g -Wall `gtk-config --cflags` -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib  helloworld.o 
> -lgtk -lgdk -lglib -lX11 -lXext -lm  -o helloworld
> /usr/lib/libgtk.so: undefined reference to `atexit@@GLIBC_2.0'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [helloworld] Error 1
> 
> Can anyone tell me why there is a reference to glibc 2.0 when I know that I 
> do not have it installed on my system.
> 
> This error also occurs when I try to compile someone else's program.

This basically means your GTK library was compiled on a system that
had atexit@@GLIBC_2.0 and your current system doesn't. Probably you
installed an RPM not meant for Red Hat 7.1.

Havoc