Re: gtk compiling woes

["Robert M. Fuhrer" <rmf asgard cs columbia edu>]

> > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"Gtk\" -I.. -I../../glib
> > -I/usr/X11R6/include -g -O2 -DGTK_NO_CHECK_CASTS -Wall -DUSE_XIM
> > -Wp,-MD,.deps/gtkhscrollbar.p -c -fPIC -DPIC gtkhscrollbar.c
> > mv -f gtkhscrollbar.o gtkhscrollbar.lo
> > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"Gtk\" -I.. -I../../glib
> > -I/usr/X11R6/include -g -O2 -DGTK_NO_CHECK_CASTS -Wall -DUSE_XIM
> > -Wp,-MD,.deps/gtkhscrollbar.p -c gtkhscrollbar.c >/dev/null 2>&1
> > make[2]: *** [gtkhscrollbar.lo] Error 1
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/gnome/gtk+/gtk'
> 
> That's interesting: the shareable object (-fPIC) got created without
> complaint.  The static object compilation exited, however.  The error
> messages are helpfully discarded, which is usually the right thing to
> do, but not in this case (AFAIK, on x86 machines, -fPIC should be the
> one that causes problems).

Oops, I think you got that backwards - note the line that reads

> > make[2]: *** [gtkhscrollbar.lo] Error 1

identifying the shared-object (-fPIC) file as the culprit.

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