Re: compiling gtk 2.4 problems

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 02:18, Conrad Gittins wrote:
> While trying to compile gtk 2.4 I get the following problem:
> 
> ./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to
> `g_type_instance_get_private'
> ./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to
> `g_completion_complete_utf8'
> ./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to
> `g_param_spec_get_redirect_target'
> ./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to
> `g_object_class_override_property'
> ./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_type_class_add_private'
> ./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to
> `g_object_interface_install_property'
> ./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_markup_printf_escaped'
> ./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_value_take_string'
> ./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_markup_vprintf_escaped'
> /usr/local/lib/libpango-1.0.so: undefined reference to
> `g_unichar_get_mirror_char'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[4]: *** [gtk-query-immodules-2.0] Error 1
> 
> And so forth.
> 
> Not knowing c programming, I've no way of telling whether this is due to
> a potential bug or not having all of the necessary libraries or correct
> versions installed.  This is also on the Debian Sarge release and it is 
> possible that something is wrong (more likely my doing).  I have 
> installed the packages (both .deb and tar files) that supposedly are 
> required.
> 
> Any tips?
> 

For some reason, your gtk got linked against a too old version of 
glib. gtk 2.4 depends on glib 2.4.

Regards,

Matthias