Re: missing g_value_get_as_pointer

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

cbhoh <cbhoh csam com my> writes:

> I am having a problem for installing GConf-1.2.0,
> it said that "undefine reference to g_value_get_as_pointer"
> 
> and I found that gobject-2.0 built from glib-2.0.4.tar.gz does not have
> the function definition.

this function was renamed before the glib-2.0.0 API freeze. You should
try a newer version of GConf.

> Instead the function definition of g_value_get_as_pointer is found in
> 
> libgobject-1.3.in my GNU/Linux 's  "/usr/lib" directory.
> 
> 
> I temporarily solved the problem by changing configure.in and passing
> additional linked library:
> -lgobject-1.3 to Makefile.in in all directories.
> 
> and It worked. But i am not sure if that is right to do so.

Linking against an older version of glib as you described is
definitely a very bad idea.


Salut, Sven