Re: Building gtk+

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

Philip Peake <philip vogon net> writes:

> I am having trouble building gtk+.
> 
> On Redhat 7.3, everything configures ok, and builds up to the point
> of gtk-demo, where I get the following error:
> 
> creating gtk-demo
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/philip/src/gtk+-2.0.8/demos/gtk-demo'
> make[3]: Entering directory `/home/philip/src/gtk+-2.0.8/demos'
> (topdir=`cd .. && pwd` ; curdir=`pwd` ; \
>   cd . &&                                    \
>       GDK_PIXBUF_MODULEDIR=$topdir/gdk-pixbuf/.libs $topdir/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf-csource --build-list \
>         apple_red apple-red.png gnome_foot gnome-foot.png >$curdir/test-inline-pixbufs.h)
> failed to load "apple-red.png": Failed to load image 'apple-red.png': Fatal error in PNG image file: Application must be recompiled; versions <= 1.0.6 were incompatible

looks as if the gdk-pixbuf PNG loader is not linked against the same
version of libpng that was used to compile it. Something seems to be
broken with regard to libpng on your system.


Salut, Sven