gdk-pixbuf.loaders missing while building gtk+-2.2.1

[Andrew Preater <garnome preater com>]

I'm building garnome-0.22.0 under Mandrake 9.0 and have run into this
problem part way.  It's solved, I've sent this mail because (a) I
couldn't find much mention of it when I googled (b) I'm interested
*why* it happened.  BTW about the distro - I do use Slackware as well,
but Slack 9.0 yet ready for day-to-day use on my system. :)

While building gtk+-2.2.1, I get the following errors (snipped):

~/garnome-0.22.0/meta/gnome-desktop
$ make install
[snip]
[===== NOW BUILDING:    gtk+-2.2.1      =====]
        [fetch] complete for gtk+.
        [checksum] complete for gtk+.
        [extract] complete for gtk+.
        [patch] complete for gtk+.
        [configure] complete for gtk+.
        [build] complete for gtk+.
/bin/sh: line 1: /home/chimp/garnome/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders: No such fi
make[2]: *** [post-install] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/chimp/garnome-0.22.0/gnome/gtk+
make[1]: *** [../../gnome/gtk+/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/chimp/garnome-0.22.0/gnome/meta
make: *** [../../gnome/metacity/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2

Indeed, gdk-pixbuf.loaders doesn't exist when I looked.  For that
matter ~/garnome/etc/gtk-2.0/ didn't exist either.  Googling revealed
a solution and some useful gdk-pixbuf developer docs[1].  The solution
is a simple:

~/garnome/bin
$ ./gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders > ../etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders

After creating the gtk-2.0 directory.  Everything's proceeding
normally since then.  But surely this can't be the expected behaviour?
If this isn't already known, I could just file a bug.

Cheers,

Andrew Preater

[1] http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf-Module-Interface.html