Re: gnome-program.h: defining variables in headers

[murrayc t-online de (Murray Cumming)]

On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 14:27, ERDI Gergo wrote:
> On 5 Dec 2001, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> > I'd say that if some apps in CVS are really using this for something
> > reasonable/common, we should do the first thing (provide accessors).
> > If however no one is using it or the uses of it are
> > obscure/weird/crack-ridden, we should just delete the whole deal as
> > Glynn suggests.
> > 
> > g_get_prgname() seems like it's probably appropriate for most uses.
> 
> I wasn't aware of g_get_prgname(). In this case, I propose removing the
> variables from libgnome and using g_set_prgname() in gnome_init.
> BTW, why isn't g_get_prgname()'s return value declared const?

That's good timing. Maybe that's why I'm getting this error in
libgnomeuimm:

main.lo: In function `Gnome::Main type_info function':
/gnome/head/cvs/gnomemm/libgnomeuimm/libgnomeui/libgnomeuimm/main.cc(.bss+0x0): multiple definition of `program_invocation_short_name'
client.lo(.bss+0x4):/gnome/head/cvs/gnomemm/libgnomeuimm/libgnomeui/libgnomeuimm/../../libgnomeui/libgnomeuimm/client.h: first defined here
main.lo: In function `Gnome::Main type_info function':
/gnome/head/cvs/gnomemm/libgnomeuimm/libgnomeui/libgnomeuimm/main.cc(.bss+0x4): multiple definition of `program_invocation_name'
client.lo(.bss+0x8):/gnome/head/cvs/gnomemm/libgnomeuimm/libgnomeui/libgnomeuimm/../../libgnomeui/libgnomeuimm/client.h: first defined here
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [libgnomeuimm-1.3.la] Error 1

I haven't a clue how to fix this.

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