Re: glib doesn't have gint*

[Raja R Harinath <harinath cs umn edu>]

Andrew Clausen <clausen@alphalink.com.au> writes:
> Anyway, I found that I had two copies of glibconfig.h:
> 
> /usr/local/include/glibconfig.h
> /usr/local/lib/glib/include/glibconfig.h
> 
> The first one was very old, and when a program did #include<glibconfig.h>, it
> picked up the first rather than the second.  Is this a common problem?

It shouldn't be all that common.  According to the ChangeLog,
`glibconfig.h' started appearing in $pkglibdir/include from Mar 14,
circa gtk+ 0.99.7.  It predated the split of glib from gtk+.

Then, and till recently, the `glibconfig.h' that was installed was the
regular `config.h' generated by configure.  Now `glibconfig.h' has some
pre-computed defines, and is totally different from the old one.  In
particular, g[u]int{8,16,32,64} are `typedef'ed in glibconfig.h rather
than in glib.h.

That's why the old `glibconfig.h' created problems.

- Hari
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