Re: [gtk-list] Re: gtk+-971201

[Owen Taylor <owt1 cornell edu>]

Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> writes:

> >>>>> "Jay" == Jay Painter <jpaint@serv.net> writes:
> 
>     Jay> Here's a guess: I made a change to gtk+/gtk's Makefile.am.
>     Jay> It had been hacked at some point so that the shared library
>     Jay> version was 1:0: now, I thought that libtool default blanks
>     Jay> to 0, but so I changed it back to read 1:0:0 I didn't mention
>     Jay> this because I thought it defaulted to 0, and therefore
>     Jay> libgtk.so.1.0.0, but maybe you have some libs which are
>     Jay> libgtk.so.1.0, which are not symbolic links, but are the
>     Jay> older gtk libs.
> 
> Odd. I don't use the make install part of gtk+ (libtool can't install
> into relative directories, only absolute ones, for some bizarre reason
> -- and Debian packages need make install PREFIX=debian/tmp) so I copy
> the lib and make the symlinks all in my Debian packaging script.

Ouch. I don't make any guarantees about things working if you do that!
;-)  (You are almost certainly installing some header files incorrectly
for one thing)

Can't you do --prefix=`cwd`/debian/tmp or something? If not, we should
figure out what needs to be done to fix libtool.

Regards,
                                        Owen