Re: [gtkmm] ANNOUNCE: gtkmm 2.2.2

["Andrew E. Makeev" <andrew solvo ru>]

Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:

> > From: Andrew E. Makeev [mailto:andrew solvo ru] 
> >    
> >
> > > Right, well, if you give us a real error report for the regular
> > > configure/make build then that might help. Otherwise we 
> > >      
> > don't know anything
> >    
> >
> > > more than that the .spec.in files don't work. And that's no 
> > >      
> > great surprise.
> >    
> >
> > >      
> > Well, as I suspected - you cannot build and run gtkmm applications, 
> > using LIBS from "pkg-config --libs gtkmm-2.0", because shared library 
> > files are missing .so extension after configure, make install. Don't 
> > worry about LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PATH environment variables, 
> > everything 
> > set properly.
> >    
>
> Please show us an error message of some kind. Maybe I'm just having a bad
> day, but this seems unnecesarily frustrating.
>
>  
It is obvious.

g++ -g -o test `pkg-config --libs --cflags gtkmm-2.0` test.cpp
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgtkmm-2.0
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

I heard, you may trace autoconf processing and see what it's doing. 
Probably, then you may discover why it generates shrext=".so" and 
library_names_spec=...{$shared_ext}...
And I don't know why I am alone here who reported about that error... Oh 
wait! I know, people just didn't uninstall old library files and linker 
could find 'em instead of new... Well, well, good luck in fixing.

Regards,
-andrew