Re: What am I doing wrong?

[José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque cox net>]

Jamiil said the following:
> Well, yes, there are many differences between your compiler/linker 
> command line, but what am I supposed to do with that?
> You see, since I did not write the 'installer', all I can do is to go 
> by the book, I do what the darn book says is to extract the compiler 
> and linker parameters copy them into the IDE and click on compile, 
> this is what I did with the previous versions of 'gtkmm-installer', 
> why is it that now it does not work?
> I am not interested in what some-one's pkg-config says, all I am 
> interested in is what my pkg-config spits at me and then plug it to 
> the IDE, click on 'compile' and away we go.
> I am not saying that you advice is wrong, what I am saying is that the 
> 'installer' is not working  for me, and what I am asking is what I can 
> do at my end to resolve the problem.
>
> TIA
Okay.  I'll try to simplify:  Your linker is crashing from the 
`-lfontconfig' flag.  The `-lfontconfig' flag comes from a `pkg-config 
--libs <library>' command (unless you include it some other way as Armin 
said in his answer).  In your original post, the libs show that there is 
no `-lfontconfig' so as Armin already said, this seems like a problem 
with your configuration and not the installer (in other words, if 
`pkg-config --libs gtkmm-2.4' does not include a `-lfontconfig' it is 
not the installer that is causing your problem).  I know it's 
frustrating, but if you want to solve your problem you need to 
investigate.  This is what programming is about.  It may be difficult, 
but sometimes it's the configuration we are using and not the installer 
itself.  I've helped as much as I can.  The rest is really up to you, I 
think.  I hope this helps. Good luck. :-)

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José Alburquerque
jaalburquerque cox net