Re: GTK+ 1.2.7: failing to compile gtkmain.c

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On 17 Feb 2000, Raja R Harinath wrote:

> > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../gtk
> > -I.. -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"Gtk\" -DGTK_DISABLE_COMPAT_H
> > -DGTK_EXE_PREFIX=\"/usr/local\" -DGTK_DATA_PREFIX=\"/usr/local\" -DGTK_SYSCONFDIR=\"/usr/local/etc\" -DGTK_LOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -I../.. -DGTK_NO_CHECK_CASTS
> > -DUSE_XIM -I/usr/local/lib/glib/include -I/usr/local/include
> > -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/X11R6/include -g -O2 -Wall -c
> > ../../gtk/gtkmain.c -o gtkmain.o >/dev/null 2>&1
>    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> This looks like a compiler error.  It compiles the -fPIC version but
> not the non-PIC version... wierd.  Maybe you temporarily ran out of

it's libtool's responsiveness to pas -fPIC to the compiler, so this looks
more like a libtool bug, rather than a gcc one.
i just don't know how to reproduce that here.

> disk space, or there's some little bug in gcc that is tickled by the
> code in gtkmain.c.
> 
> Try running
> 
>     make gtkmain.o
> 
> and look at the output.  This compiles the non-PIC version without
> redirecting the output of the compiler to /dev/null.
> 
> - Hari

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