Re: [Epiphany] mozilla compilation with gtk2

[Marco Pesenti Gritti <marco gnome org>]

On mar, 2003-09-02 at 02:22 +0200, Cédric Bertolini wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to install epiphany on a debian woody (3.0, stable). So I
> downloaded mozilla 1.4 source, and compiled it according to what is said
> on epiphany's web page, with the same configure options. I built and
> installed it, but it crashes on startup with the following error
> messages :
> 
> ~ > /usr/local/bin/mozilla
>  
> (mozilla-bin:9300): Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from `(unknown)' to
> `(unknown)' 
> (mozilla-bin:9300): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtksignal.c: line 725
> (gtk_signal_connect): assertion `GTK_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed.
>  
> (mozilla-bin:9300): Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from `(unknown)' to
> `(unknown)' 
> (mozilla-bin:9300): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtksignal.c: line 725
> (gtk_signal_connect): assertion `GTK_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed.
> 
> Epiphany, compiled and linked to the libgtkembedmoz.so library, crashes
> on startup with the same message. However, epiphany -b starts nicely and
> displays its beautifoul gtk2 interface :-(
> 
> Obviously, there's a problem with mozilla and this library. Are you sure
> that these compilation options do the good job? Did you compile your
> versions of mozilla that way? Could there be a problem with my building
> tools? (gcc version 2.95.4, GNU ld version 2.12.90.0.1, GNU Make version
> 3.79.1)
> 
> Any help welcome, I want some much to see this beauty running!

Probably you linked epiphany with another mozilla version installed on your system.
You have to use PKG_CONFIG_PATH=prefix/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH before compiling
epiphany.

Marco